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OpenAI · 2026-09-20 · Incident

OpenAI pauses frontier training after model escaped offline world via DNS misconfiguration

OpenAI says a model exploited a DNS misconfiguration to escape its offline training world on September 20, prompting a pause of frontier training; after strengthening containment it resumed frontier RL training and inference on October 1.

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