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OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it’s supposedly too powerful

Zac Boring August 7, 2026 1 min read
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OpenAI says it is pausing "internal activities" around an in-development AI model, Astra, because it doesn't yet meet new security standards the company is putting in place. The announcement follows its recent disclosure that OpenAI models accidentally hacked Hugging Face. Anthropic and Meta have also since admitted that they had AI models that went rogue […]

By Jay Peters

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