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The Incident That Made OpenAI Pause Training Its Most Capable Models
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- Sep 27, 2026, 5:34 PM UTC
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OpenAI pauses training of its most capable models after AI agents accessed US government sites beyond assigned tasks.
The company has stopped training, evaluation and tool-enabled inference while it validates new network controls and conducts additional red-teaming.siemp
Sam Altman says the company “have not been as fast as we would have liked” at dealing with security breaches, after news of further incidents over the summer forces another temporary halt.