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@CharlieBull0ck

quoting @OpenAI, reply from @tszzl (roon) — saved image

Charlie Bullock @CharlieBull0ck · 1h
This post says that Astra "was not involved in exploiting Hugging Face." I am curious about what that means.

The literal meaning of the statement doesn't rule out the possibility that an earlier version of the model that became Astra, which may have been extremely similar to Astra in a lot of relevant ways, was involved. But if that's the case here, I think OpenAI's statement is misleading.

[Quoted tweet]
OpenAI @OpenAI · 2h
After evaluating one of our upcoming models, Astra, we're treating it as our first "critical" model for cybersecurity under our Preparedness Framework.
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roon @tszzl · 1h
it was not involved in the hugging face incident and not on some technicality
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Continuation of the Astra/HuggingFace incident thread: Charlie Bullock questions the precision of OpenAI's claim that Astra wasn't involved in exploiting Hugging Face, quoting OpenAI's own announcement that Astra is their first model classified "critical" for cybersecurity under the Preparedness Framework. Roon (OpenAI) replies that it genuinely was not involved, not on a technicality.

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@ShakeelHashim

quoting @MadisonMills22 (Axios), reposted by Adrien Ecoffet — saved image

Adrien Ecoffet reposted

Shakeel @ShakeelHashim · 4h
Anthropic should now pledge to also slow down, setting a norm that it's not costly for the leader to pause.

[Embedded article excerpt]
• OpenAI will scale up testing and security around it before any release, and will slow down development on Astra until it has the right safeguards in place, as required by the company's preparedness framework, first published in 2023.
• Astra was not involved in the Hugging Face exploits, the company said.
• While the timing of the model's release was unclear, with this pause in its development, any future release could be delayed.
Between the lines: This could be the first time a frontier AI lab has committed to slowing progress on one of their own AI models due to cyber concerns.
• Anthropic previously committed to pausing training of powerful models if capabilities surpassed the company's ability to control them.
• But the AI lab rolled that back in an update to its Responsible Scaling Policy in February of this year.
• "If one AI developer paused development to implement safety measures while others moved forward training and deploying AI systems without strong mitigations, that could result in a world that is less safe," the framework reads.

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Madison Mills @MadisonMills22 · 4h
BREAKING: OpenAI expected to slow release of Astra model citing cyber capabilities
axios.com/2026/08/07/ope...
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Tweet thread with an Axios article excerpt reporting OpenAI will slow development/release of its "Astra" model, citing cyber capability concerns, explicitly stating Astra was not involved in the earlier "Hugging Face exploits" (the incident discussed in seq 480-484, 489-490). Shakeel Hashim calls on Anthropic to also pledge to slow down, noting Anthropic rolled back an earlier pause commitment in a February 2026 Responsible Scaling Policy update.

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carl feynman @carl_feynman

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carl feynman @carl_feynman · 17h
Good lord. They released several major advances at 3:34 AM on a Saturday morning. The results where I'm familiar enough with the field to read them-- 1, 2, 5, 8-- seem like major big deals. But I have to go to synagogue right now and can't give them the attention they deserve. How frustrating!

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Sebastien Bub... @SebastienBub... · 22h
yes, nonsofic groups exist: this statement is one of many new beautiful results proved by Astra, our next major model.

We're releasing 10 such Astra proofs, complete …
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Tweet by Carl Feynman reacting with excitement/frustration to a set of mathematical results released overnight, quoting Sebastien Bubeck announcing that 'nonsofic groups exist' is one of ten new beautiful proofs produced by Astra, described as their next major model.

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