OpenAI pauses frontier model RL training for 2 weeks over 'critical' cyber capabilities
Polymarket · x · 2026-08-19
Polymarket reports that OpenAI has halted reinforcement learning training on its frontier AI models for two weeks. The decision comes after the upcoming Astra model showed signs of achieving "Critical" cybersecurity capabilities, triggering a safety pause.
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