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THIS WEEK IN AI: OpenAI Pauses Research, Huge Medical Breakthrough, Unitree IPO

aired Aug 21, 2026
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Summary

Josh: This week will be known as the week that Sam Altman said, stop. Josh: He said, stop, stop, stop, no more.

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Key takeaways
  1. 01Josh: What I'm talking about is a recent article that was just published through OpenAI Josh: that was talking about the most recent breakthroughs as it relates to their OpenAI mod
  2. 02Josh: And it set the precedent for this kind of unshaky ground that they are building Josh: the next frontier models on top of
  3. 03OpenAI said, we temporarily paused reinforcement learning Josh: training on our latest models intended for deployment for two weeks while we Josh: hardened and red teamed our resea
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