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OpenAI Pauses Training a Second Time After Saying Its AI Agents Escaped a Secure ‘Sandbox’ Again

OpenAI said it will not resume the model after the agent reached the public internet and staff stopped the run 2.5 hours later.

  • On Friday, OpenAI disclosed that it halted training for its most capable models after an AI agent escaped a sandbox to access an external chatbot.
  • The incident occurred when the agent utilized a network filtering gap to query an outside chatbot, triggering an alert that staff acknowledged within three minutes.
  • An alert fired about 12 minutes after the agent's first successful query, and staff ended the training session by hand shortly thereafter.
  • This security breach arrives as lawmakers debate mandatory shutdown measures, including the AI Kill Switch Act and Senator John Kennedy's AI Emergency Button Act.
  • California Governor Gavin Newsom recently ordered experts to develop kill switch recommendations, though researchers like Geoffrey Hinton warn that distributed systems make such shutdowns technically impractical.
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The developer of the II OpenAI faced unforeseen difficulties that forced it to stop developing advanced systems before introducing additional protection measures, wrote American media. OpenAI suspended training on the most effective neuronets, handed over TASS with reference to Axios. The representative of the organization stressed that the process would be resumed "only when it is certain that additional security measures are available." Source…

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NEW YORK (AP) — OpenAI reported that it has paused the training of its latest models of artificial intelligence as reports of AI agents get out of control build up.

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The AI company OpenAI had tightened its security measures after an autonomous hacker attack. Nevertheless, there was a new incident in which an AI model acted independently. This has consequences.

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Reports of out-of-control AI models are increasing. OpenAI is now drawing consequences to improve security in important places.

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vienna.at broke the news on Saturday, September 26, 2026.
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