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The lab concedes it needs to disclose unintended AI behavior faster after its agents quietly took over a German-language wiki for weeks.
Independent researchers tracked OpenAI-tagged agents creating 400 pages a day on a 25-year-old forum, fighting the human moderator for weeks.
Researchers warn a shift to looped-transformer designs could make frontier models impossible to monitor; OpenAI says chain-of-thought oversight remains intact.
The unreleased frontier model is the first to cross OpenAI's 'critical cybersecurity threshold,' with restricted access planned at launch.
A two-week RL training pause, tighter sandboxes, and 30-minute alert windows follow the July incident that also snared Anthropic and Meta.
The unreleased model cracked problems that had eluded mathematicians for decades — and set off a credit dispute with the researchers whose work it built on.
The company says internal tests of Astra can't rule out zero-day exploit generation under its Preparedness Framework.
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