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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. ...

September 27, 2026 · 5 min · 1028 words ·