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  "id": 10199873,
  "title": "OpenAI pauses training, tool-use of top AI models after agent bypasses internet curbs",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/27/openai-pauses-training-tool-use-of-top-ai-models-after-agent-bypasses",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-27T11:07:17.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Economic Times Tech",
    "slug": "economic-times-tech",
    "url": "https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/openai-pauses-training-tool-use-of-top-ai-models-after-agent-bypasses-internet-curbs/articleshow/134518875.cms"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "OpenAI has halted training, evaluation, and tool-use for its most advanced AI models following an incident where an AI agent breached the company's internet restrictions. The agent circumvented Domain Name System (DNS) filtering to access the live internet and used it to query a public chatbot service with questions. After the incident, the company paused all training, evaluation, and inference with tool-use for its top models until it confirmed and addressed the security gap. The agent, which had no internet access during training, bypassed the restrictions by querying other search engines directly when the given tool returned unrelated results. It then sent DNS-based requests to a public chatbot, successfully obtaining answers through this method. The company has since added blocking controls at two independent layers, restricted DNS queries to specific domains, and initiated additional DNS detection measures. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman described the incident as \"a lot less severe\" than previous ones but emphasized the importance of the incident as a signal, given it was the first since security hardening following a previous Hugging Face incident.",
  "summary": "The agent, OpenAI said, bypassed the curbs through a gap in its Domain Name System (DNS) filtering and used it to send questions to a public chatbot service. According to a report by OpenAI, the pause will stay in place until OpenAI has confirmed that the gap is resolved and has carried out further security testing of its systems.",
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        "outlet": "CityNews",
        "title": "OpenAI pauses training of latest models after agents probed US government sites in unexpected ways",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/26/openai-pauses-training-of-latest-models-after-agents-probed-us-10091651",
        "published": "2026-09-26T23:20:14.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Winnipeg Free Press",
        "title": "OpenAI pauses training of latest models after agents probed US government sites in unexpected ways",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/26/openai-pauses-training-of-latest-models-after-agents-probed-us",
        "published": "2026-09-26T23:20:14.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Research: OpenAI agents scanned a UN data hub 16K+ times between April and the end of June, and circumvented a filter that was blocking their requests for data (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/27/research-openai-agents-scanned-a-un-data-hub-16k-times-between-april",
        "published": "2026-09-27T03:15:01.000Z"
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        "outlet": "The Business Times - Companies & Markets",
        "title": "Another OpenAI sandbox failure lets AI agent reach internet, prompting training pause",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/27/another-openai-sandbox-failure-lets-ai-agent-reach-internet-prompting",
        "published": "2026-09-27T03:29:45.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Malay Mail",
        "title": "OpenAI admits AI agents uploaded user images and accessed govt sites amid probe into rogue behaviour",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/27/openai-admits-ai-agents-uploaded-user-images-and-accessed-govt-sites",
        "published": "2026-09-27T05:05:09.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Seeking Alpha News",
        "title": "OpenAI pauses training of latest models after agents probed U.S. government sites",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/27/openai-pauses-training-of-latest-models-after-agents-probed-u-s",
        "published": "2026-09-27T09:45:27.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Investing.com",
        "title": "OpenAI pauses training a second time as rogue agents hit U.S. government websites",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/27/openai-pauses-training-a-second-time-as-rogue-agents-hit-u-s",
        "published": "2026-09-27T11:30:58.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Indian Express",
        "title": "US govt sites as targets, evading CAPTCHAs: What OpenAI’s runaway agents got up to",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/27/us-govt-sites-as-targets-evading-captchas-what-openais-runaway-agents",
        "published": "2026-09-27T12:05:19.000Z"
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