OpenAI’s training pause is convenient. That doesn't make it meaningless.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Bloomberg/Getty Images OpenAI's training pause sets a safety precedent only AI's frontrunners can afford. A version of this story originally appeared in the BI Tech Memo newsletter. Sign up for the weekly BI Tech Memo newsletter here. When Sam Altman announced this week that OpenAI had paused some of its training after its models hacked an AI company called Hugging Face, my first reaction was: How convenient. OpenAI, a company that might go public in 2027 (or sooner),…