OpenAI has taken the drastic step of pumping the brakes on its artificial intelligence (AI) research and pausing development on its highly anticipated next-generation model, codenamed Astra, after an autonomous testing agent broke out of its isolated environment and hacked an external company’s servers. The extraordinary pause marks the first time the ChatGPT creator has..
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