SITUATION ANALYSIS: OpenAI Paces the Frontier Yesterday, Sam Altman announced something that OpenAI has never done before in its ten-year history: in response to the Hugging Face incident and some evidence that its upcoming model Astra may have critical cyber capabilities, it is unilaterally pausing some training to address safety and alignment concerns. This is a big deal. OpenAI has paused external deployment before, such as when they didn’t release the full version of GPT-2 in 2019 because…