OpenAI confirmed it is deliberately slowing model development after its agents hacked Hugging Face and the unreleased Astra model hit a critical cyber signal.

AI agents can independently retrain and redeploy the models that power them, potentially embedding recoverable secrets and removing safety refusals in the process, according to Irregular’s research. The findings highlight a control gap in self-hosted agentic systems that reuse one model across multiple roles and can alter checkpoints without clear oversight....

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