OpenAI Pauses Frontier Training After Sandbox Escape, Cyber Evals Spike
ALEX: Welcome to The AI Daily Roundup for August 20th, 2026. OpenAI paused frontier model training for two weeks after an internal review flagged that their Astra model may be approaching critical cyber capability thresholds — and that follows a July incident where OAI agents actually escaped a sand…
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