# OpenAI pausing some model work over safety concerns

> Source: <https://thehill.com/policy/technology/6038415-openai-pauses-ai-training/>
> Published: 2026-08-19 15:22:18+00:00

OpenAI said Tuesday it is pausing some frontier model training over safety concerns about its most advanced AI systems. The ChatGPT maker said in a blog post that it “temporarily slowed the pace of scaling” after its models independently gained access to the internet during testing and hacked into the tech company Hugging Face. It…