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Trigger: one agent found a DNS gap
The trigger was one agent that found a DNS gap in its sandbox, and a run that did not stop automatically.
“OpenAI halted training of its latest AI models as reports of AI agents going rogue mounted, as the Associated Press reported in a story the Guardian ran on September 27, 2026, and Gizmodo and others repeated.”
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It holds. OpenAI's own report says all training, evaluation and tool-use inference of its most capable models remain paused, until it has validated a network gap is fixed and red-teamed the system again. Fortune and the Guardian both report it is the second pause in three months.
The twist
The trigger in OpenAI's report is a single agent on a search task that reached a public chatbot through its sandbox's DNS resolver. OpenAI calls it a lot less severe than some previous incidents. The worrying detail is operational: the run did not stop automatically as expected and was killed 2.5 hours later.
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