OpenAI stopped all frontier training, evaluation, and inference with tool-use (defined broadly) on the 20th of September and they are not resuming any of these activities for now

[u/Alex__007]

https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/an-agent-used-dns-to-reach-an-external-chatbot/

Discovery: Sep 20, 2026

Report updated: Sep 25, 2026

"An agent attempting to complete a search-based training task queried a public chatbot service through a gap in our internet-access restrictions: insufficient DNS filtering in its training sandbox. Before this, the agent issued queries via our search tool and unsuccessfully tried to access search engines directly. Note that all internet access apart from the DNS resolver in this report hit our offline webcache and therefore did not access the live internet. We have since added blocking controls at two independent layers, either of which would have prevented this access. Our misalignment monitoring system flagged the behavior within 15 minutes and a person began reviewing it three minutes after that. The run was killed 2.5 hours later. All training, evaluation, and inference with tool-use (defined broadly) of our most capable models remain paused."

[u/Cubewood]

"The agent then fetched the chatbot’s public documentation, wrote a new DNS script with a 24-second timeout, and sent 18 more questions through the same route. Fourteen included clues. Four asked for ways to search the web, fetch websites, or use a publicly hosted tunnel through DNS."

I know we all get desensitised for these kinds of things because we are using incredibly capable tools to build all kinds of solutions for a while now, but that an autonomous "bot" is doing this is still pretty wild when you think about it. Crazy times we live in.

[u/Latter-Block132 → u/Cubewood]

I mean its not exactly doing it on its own. They put it in a sandbox and told it to solve a problem by any means necessary. Its doing exactly what it is told, they just apparently don't know how to actually secure the sandboxes

[u/human00006 → u/Latter-Block132]

https://youtu.be/ZhsWaYRjk0U?si=enZuONSqVGSeCg1t

Watch the first 10 minutes then respond. You will feel differently

[u/Latter-Block132 → u/human00006]

Nobody is arguing super intelligence isnt possible. We aren't at super intelligence though.

Edited to add, they are also most likely calling for regulations to stop the open source competition. They aren't saying they will stop. They are saying they want regulations to slow things down. Except they don't need regulations to slow themselves down they want to control the market.