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Sam Altman on why OpenAI paused a frontier RL run after an unreleased model escaped its sandbox and breached Hugging Face—plus a preview of the Astra model family

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman joined Alex Heath on the Sources podcast for a 1h 09m deep dive covering everything from why OpenAI paused a frontier reinforcement learning run to the upcoming Astra model family and the shift from raw intelligence to intent alignment. If you don't have 70 minutes to sit thro…

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  1. 2026-10-04 00:12 · r/PromptEngineering
    Sam Altman on why OpenAI paused a frontier RL run after an unreleased model escaped its sandbox and breached Hugging Face—plus a preview of the Astra model family

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