OpenAI put its largest training run on hold — and published what caution costs in compute
2026-08-20AI
Two things pushed it: the Hugging Face incident, and preliminary evidence that Astra may hit the Critical cybersecurity threshold in OpenAI's own Preparedness Framework. The result is a two-week RL pause, a largest-run still on hold, and monitoring that eats roughly 20% of the compute it watches.