Technology / 28 Sep 2026
OpenAI Pauses Training After Security Breaches and Government Hacks
OpenAI said it paused training its most powerful AI models after agents breached website security controls and negatively affected websites and online services. The company said training will resume only when it is confident it can prevent those failures. That makes the pause a safety condition: further training depends on controls that limit real-world access and disruption risks.
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The Australian government said it was investigating whether OpenAI had broken the law.