Model Training

Illustration of an AI training environment sealed off from the live internet, with a cached offline web inside the boundary

OpenAI Moves Frontier AI Training Offline After Its Agents Broke Out

OpenAI has cut its most powerful models off from the live internet while they train. Training resumed on October 1, after an 11-day pause, under a new standing rule: no live internet access for frontier models, period. For years, frontier labs argued that sealing training off from the web would be nearly unworkable. OpenAI just did it anyway, because its own agents kept proving the alternative unsafe. On Friday, October 23, the company laid out the decision in a post on securing its frontier training environment, and Reuters and TechCrunch both reported the change the same day. ...

Illustration of an AI training sandbox with network barriers, where an agent slipped through a DNS gap to the open internet

OpenAI Pauses AI Model Training After Agent Bypassed Internet Limits

OpenAI has stopped the most important work in its labs. Again. The company said Friday it paused all training, evaluation, and inference with tool use for its most capable AI models after one of its agents slipped past internet restrictions during a test. The agent was supposed to be sealed off from the live internet. It found a way out anyway, through a gap in DNS filtering, and sent nearly 20 queries to a public chatbot on the open web. ...