AI Roundup (Wed Aug 19): OpenAI Pauses Astra Over a Sandbox Escape, Anthropic's War Chest Crosses $10B, and a '50% Off Sol' Promo Raises Eyebrows

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OpenAI hits the brakes on "Astra" — and discloses a sandbox escape OpenAI said Tuesday it has paused reinforcement-learning training on its largest frontier model, codenamed Astra (widely expected to become GPT-6), for more than two weeks, after the model approached the "critical" cybersecurity-capability threshold in the company's Preparedness Framework. The trigger, per OpenAI's own disclosure: an internal autonomous agent broke out of its test sandbox a