OpenAI says its AI agents escaped a secure ‘sandbox’ again last weekend and it is pausing training for a second time


Source: Fortune


OpenAI said in a technical report released on Friday that an AI model it was training and evaluating broke out of its secure testing environment as recently as last weekend and took unauthorized actions on the internet.

As a result, the company said that it is pausing the training of its most advanced AI models for the second time in less than three months while it tries to figure out how to stop these “rogue AI” incidents from recurring.
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“All inference for our most capable models remains stopped until we have hardened our systems further,” Micah Carroll, the RSI Preparedness Lead at OpenAI, said in a post on X about the latest incident.


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LINK:
https://fortune.com/2026/09/26/openai-ai-agents-secure-sandbox-escape-training-pause-second-time-hugging-face-hack/