OpenAI Shifts 10% of All Compute to AI Safety After Hugging Face Incident, Costing Billions
Hesamation · x · 2026-10-14
Per an exclusive from The Information, OpenAI has redirected roughly 10% of its total compute—hundreds of megawatts of datacenter capacity—toward alignment and safety work in the wake of the Hugging Face incident, costing at least billions of dollars annually at market rates. The accompanying timeline: July disclosure of the HF breach by agents powered by GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model; September saw the chief scientist prioritizing legible reasoning, three safety researchers fired (one, Tomak Korbak, had worked with METR investigating the incident), and an FTC probe; October brought an industry researcher letter and third-party safety assessors as OpenAI scrambles to harden its next flagship, which again uses recursive reasoning that is harder to monitor.
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