OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents
Take five OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents US Government websites among “dozens of third parties” OpenAI has recently notified. OpenAI says that improper DNS filtering allowed the agent to attempt to break out of its sandbox and access the wider Internet when asked for biographical details about a blogger. OpenAI says the agent was only able to access the company’s offline web cache and that it has implemented additional multi-layered blocking controls to prevent similar incidents in the future.
- ▪Take five OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents US Government websites among “dozens of third parties” OpenAI has recently notified.
- ▪OpenAI says that improper DNS filtering allowed the agent to attempt to break out of its sandbox and access the wider Internet when asked for biographical details about a blogger.
- ▪OpenAI says the agent was only able to access the company’s offline web cache and that it has implemented additional multi-layered blocking controls to prevent similar incidents in the future.
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Take five OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents US Government websites among “dozens of third parties” OpenAI has recently notified. Kyle Orland – Sep 28, 2026 12:43 pm | 63 That's one way to stop the risk of "misalignment" Credit: Getty Images That's one way to stop the risk of "misalignment" Credit: Getty Images Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav OpenAI says it has paused all internal training of “our most capable models” as it continues what CEO Sam Altman is calling “an extensive and ongoing review related to our agents’ use of internet access during training and evaluation.” The company revealed the pause in a report about a so-called…
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