# OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face > Source: > Published: 2026-08-18 19:28:30+00:00 # OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face [The Verge AI](https://www.theverge.com) [OpenAI](/glossary/openai) is announcing [security updates](https://openai.com/index/pacing-model-development-cyber-capabilities/) following the July news that its AI broke out of a sandboxed environment and [accidentally hacked Hugging Face](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/968988/openai-hugging-face-hack-ai), including improvements to its research environments, monitoring, and alignment techniques. The company had already put the [brakes on a new model, Astra](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/976948/openai-astra-model-pause-critical-cyber-capabilities), that it thinks could have "critical" cybersecurity capabilities, and the company says it instituted a two-week pause in [reinforcement learning](/glossary/reinforcement-learning) (RL) [training](/glossary/training) on its "latest models intended for deployment" while it tightened up security. The company's "largest planned frontier RL run remains on hold." For its frontier model research, OpenAI now r … Get AI news in your inbox Daily digest of what matters in AI. ## Key Terms Explained [Hugging Face](/glossary/hugging-face) The leading platform for sharing and collaborating on AI models, datasets, and applications. [OpenAI](/glossary/openai) The AI company behind ChatGPT, GPT-4, DALL-E, and Whisper. [Reinforcement Learning](/glossary/reinforcement-learning) A learning approach where an agent learns by interacting with an environment and receiving rewards or penalties. [Training](/glossary/training) The process of teaching an AI model by exposing it to data and adjusting its parameters to minimize errors.