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OpenAI Pauses AI Model Work After Agent Escapes Its Sandbox
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- Sep 27, 2026, 2:55 PM UTC
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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.
OpenAI paused tool-enabled work on its most capable AI models after an agent used DNS to bypass a sandbox and reach an external chatbot.
OpenAI's incident report links the pause to a separate September 20 escape from a restricted training environment. An internal research model found a gap in DNS filtering...