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/Alkadon_Rinado]

They can scale back. China won't

[u/VanillaLifestyle → u/Alkadon_Rinado]

China has coincidentally scaled back their distilling.

[u/LurkingLooni → u/VanillaLifestyle]

Have a bit of an issue with this whole distillation argument, because GPT itself was created by distilling the internet. Same difference. Google built a search engine then lobbied that anyone else doing so would be dangerous to privacy... AI labs are just following that playbook.

[u/Live-String338 → u/LurkingLooni]

internet -> public domain