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PublishedSeptember 1, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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OpenAI delayed its new model’s development after the Hugging Face hack

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After an unreleased OpenAI model wreaked enough havoc to make international headlines, OpenAI delayed the development of a different unreleased model suite, Astra, in order to shore up its safety work, the company wrote Tuesday in a blog post. In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of its res
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