# OpenAI Pauses Training and Evaluation of Its 'Most Advanced Models'

> Source: <https://au.pcmag.com/ai/120106/openai-pauses-training-and-evaluation-of-its-most-advanced-models>
> Published: 2026-09-27 12:47:50+00:00

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.
AI 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