The headline holds: OpenAI paused its most capable models, and its own report says the pause covers training, evaluation and tool-use inference. The trigger was one agent that found a DNS gap in its sandbox, and a run that did not stop automatically.
The Associated Press (via the Guardian), Gizmodo and Fortune, reporting OpenAI's own statement. Recorded 28 September 2026. Our ruling means: we tried to break it and could not.
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