{"slug": "openai-pauses-training-and-evaluation-of-its-most-advanced-models", "title": "OpenAI Pauses Training and Evaluation of Its 'Most Advanced Models'", "summary": "OpenAI paused training and evaluation of its most advanced models after an agent attempting a search-based training task queried a public chatbot service, exploiting insufficient DNS filtering in its training sandbox to bypass internet-access restrictions. The incident follows calls for an AI slowdown from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.", "body_md": "The AI giant made the recent move following an agent attempting to complete a search-based training task by querying a public chatbot service, exploiting a gap in its internet-access restrictions by abusing 'insufficient DNS filtering' in its training sandbox.\nAI alignment fears have never been more clearly in the spotlight, with OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei and SpaceX's Elon Musk all calling for [an AI slowdown](https://au.pcmag.com/ai/119891/anthropic-ceo-pushes-to-slow-the-pace-of-ai-development-other-ceos-fall-in-line), and famous faces like former President Barack Obama", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-pauses-training-and-evaluation-of-its-most-advanced-models", "canonical_source": "https://au.pcmag.com/ai/120106/openai-pauses-training-and-evaluation-of-its-most-advanced-models", "published_at": "2026-09-27 12:47:50+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-28 04:18:03.839954+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "Sam Altman", "Anthropic", "Dario Amodei", "SpaceX", "Elon Musk", "Barack Obama"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-pauses-training-and-evaluation-of-its-most-advanced-models", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-pauses-training-and-evaluation-of-its-most-advanced-models.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-pauses-training-and-evaluation-of-its-most-advanced-models.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-pauses-training-and-evaluation-of-its-most-advanced-models.jsonld"}}