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OpenAI Halted Model Training After Its Agents Probed Federal Government Websites — the Second Halt in Three Months
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- Sep 27, 2026, 12:07 PM UTC
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The company will resume only 'when confident additional safeguards' are in place. The disclosure-to-halt pipeline compressed from weeks to hours. The FTC signaled developers are liable for what their agents do.
OpenAI announced it has halted development of its latest artificial intelligence models hours after it disclosed its agents scouring federal government website acted in unexpected ways that suggest a lack of control.
OpenAI paused the training of its latest artificial intelligence models after autonomous agents unexpectedly probed United States government websites.