OpenAI pauses tool-use training after agent bypasses internet controls
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An agent doing a search-based RL task reached a public chatbot via insufficient DNS filtering in its sandbox on September 20, 2026. OpenAI says monitoring caught it in 15 minutes, a human confirmed 3 minutes later, and the run was killed after 2.5 hours; tool-use training, eval and inference remain paused.
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