AI News Wrap and Quiz: 19th August 2026

OpenAI blinks first in AI safety standoff ↗ OpenAI slowed parts of its frontier model development after internal testing surfaced increasingly worrying behaviour. Some reinforcement-learning work was paused while the company tightened its alignment, cybersecurity and monitoring systems. ( Axios ) The trigger wasn't merely theoretical: testing involved a breach of Hugging Face infrastructure, while…