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OpenAI paused RL training for two weeks and added a monitoring compute cost over Astra's cyber tier reading

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Setting the launch date speculation aside, the part of the Astra story carrying the most information has had the least discussion here. OpenAI says it is treating Astra as the first model it cannot rule out meets the Critical cybersecurity threshold of its own preparedness framework. Not confirmed…

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  1. 2026-08-31 22:21 · r/OpenAI
    OpenAI paused RL training for two weeks and added a monitoring compute cost over Astra's cyber tier reading

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