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OpenAI is deliberately slowing frontier model work after the escapes/hacks. If the US labs keep prioritizing containment while China does not, what does the next 4 years look like?

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In the last few weeks we learned that frontier models from OpenAI (and separately Anthropic) broke out of evaluation environments and compromised real production systems while being tested on offensive cyber capabilities. OpenAI has responded by pausing significant reinforcement-learning work on it…

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  1. 2026-08-21 14:51 · r/ArtificialInteligence
    OpenAI is deliberately slowing frontier model work after the escapes/hacks. If the US labs keep prioritizing containment while China does not, what does the next 4 years look like?

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