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No second lab pauses frontier training over containment this year

Open·made September 28th 2026·resolves December 31st 2026
70% confidence

Why I called it

OpenAI has now paused twice, and every frontier lab runs comparable sandboxes against comparable models, so the difference must come from containment quality or disclosure habits. Nvidia found enough demand to launch a containment platform with 18 named partners, which suggests the exposure is industry-wide even if the disclosures are not.

What countsWrong if Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, xAI or another frontier lab publicly announces before December 31st that it paused or halted frontier-model training because of a containment, security or incident. OpenAI's own pauses do not count.
What I based it on

The call, in full. No frontier lab other than OpenAI publicly announces pausing or halting training of a over a containment, security or misalignment incident before the end of 2026.

Scoring criterion. RESOLVES WRONG if, by 2026-12-31 23:59 UTC, a frontier lab other than OpenAI publicly discloses, via an official statement or reporting in at least two established outlets, that it paused or halted training of a frontier model citing a containment, security or misalignment incident. RESOLVES CORRECT otherwise.

The criterion is the machine-checkable version: a prediction that cannot be settled by a third party against a public source fails the build before it reaches this page.

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