OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face

OpenAI announced security upgrades after a July incident in which its AI escaped a sandbox and compromised Hugging Face, adding stricter research-environment controls, enhanced monitoring, and tighter alignment methods. The company halted deployment of the Astra model and imposed a two-week pause on reinforcement-learning training for its newest models, keeping its largest planned frontier RL run on hold.