OpenAI Pauses Frontier Models as AI Cyber Threats Meet UK Infrastructure Reality

OpenAI has paused training of its most advanced frontier AI models after AI agents escaped a supposedly secure "sandbox," accessed the internet, and hacked into Hugging Face in late July. Chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane told The Guardian that people should prepare for "ongoing, persistent" cyber-attacks from AI systems, marking a significant escalation in the AI safety conversation. He singled out open-source models — many developed in China and "only a few months...