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

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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  3. OpenAI Scraps Debut of Latest Astra Model Over Safety Risks — Bloomberg AI
  4. Heads of OpenAI and Anthropic called to face Senate inquiry after rogue agent incidents — The Guardian AI
  5. OpenAI scraps plans to publicly launch a model dubbed GPT-6.1 Astra, saying it didn't quite meet its safety bar; it had been targeting an October release (Maxwell Zeff/Wall Street Journal) — Techmeme
  6. Rogue AI accessed federal websites, posted user images online, ChatGPT says — France 24 — Artificial Intelligence
  7. OpenAI's AI agents went rogue, meddled with multiple US government websites: Report — Mint AI
  8. OpenAI cancels new AI launch, citing safety issues — Washington Post AI

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