On September 1, OpenAI wrote that, based on retrospective testing, its production safeguards at the time would have prevented the Hugging Face incident, and that it had paused frontier training for two weeks after the incident and restarted its large reinforcement-learning run on August 28.

The passage

Based on retrospective testing, we believe our production safeguards at the time would have prevented the Hugging Face incident.

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Document

OpenAI, 'Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards'

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2026-09-01

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