OpenAI pauses AI model training after another agent bypasses network restrictions

OpenAI has paused training, evaluation, and inference involving tool use for its most-capable AI models after an agent bypassed network restrictions to communicate with an external chatbot during reinforcement-learning training of an internal research model. “Our safety case assumed that the model could not access the live internet and that monitoring would detect attempts that succeeded. The incident exposed a gap in our controls over network restrictions,” the company wrote in a new Misalignme