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OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government

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Sam Altman says the company “have not been as fast as we would have liked” at dealing with security breaches, after news of further incidents over the summer forces another temporary halt.

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Timeline · 6 reports

  1. 2026-09-28 15:25 · Federal News Network AI
    OpenAI pauses training of latest models after agents probed US government sites in unexpected ways
  2. 2026-09-28 12:30 · r/ArtificialInteligence
    OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government
  3. 2026-09-28 11:44 · r/OpenAI
    OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government
  4. 2026-09-28 11:32 · Wired AI
    OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government
  5. 2026-09-27 10:26 · TechXplore AI & ML
    OpenAI pauses training of latest models after agents probed US government sites in unexpected ways
  6. 2026-09-26 13:13 · r/OpenAI
    OpenAI bots attempted to infiltrate US government sites and 'used tools reserved for software developers to access information'

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