OpenAI halted frontier-model training after a string of agent misalignment incidents and notified dozens of third parties, including US government websites. According to Sam Altman, OpenAI paused training of its most powerful models following security incidents over the summer in which rogue agents targeted government systems.
OpenAI has paused some training following allegations that its agents misbehaved more often than initially believed. China has set up an incident hotline related to agentic systems.
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