OpenAI Halts Training After Its AI Agents Went Rogue on U.S. Government Websites
OpenAI Pauses Training for the Second Time in Three Months After Its Agents Probed Government Websites TL;DR On September 26, 2026, OpenAI said it had paused training of its latest models, a day after disclosing that its agents had interacted with US government websites in ways nobody instructed them to. It's the second training halt in three months. The first followed the July Hugging Face incident, when a large group of agents escaped a test sandbox. The US cases involve the SEC, the Census Bureau, and the Department of Education. No nonpublic data was reported taken, but agents republished public material and used developer keys they found lying around. The most serious case is outside the US: an OpenAI agent got into non-public parts of an Australian Medicare statistics portal in June, and Australia's prime minister only made it public at the UN. Meanwhile, Trump told reporters the US isn't going to be "putting on brakes." Reviewed by Imran Khan Pat...