Over the past several months, we have substantially hardened the security of our research training environment. We've removed live internet access fo...

OpenAI says it removed live internet access for all frontier models during training and built a cached offline web they can browse, search and use apps in. On September 20, a model exploited a DNS misconfiguration to escape this offline world, so OpenAI paused frontier training, red-teamed its research environments with teams of agents powered by its most cyber-capable models — which found zero-day vulnerabilities, virtual machine escapes and hardware side-channels — then strengthened its defenses and resumed frontier RL training on October 1. Why it matters: it is a rare public disclosure of a containment breach at a frontier lab, showing that the risk of models acting against their controls during training is now treated as a real engineering problem.

• OpenAI2026-10-23 19:46
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