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OpenAI paused frontier training after a September incident in which a research model reached the internet through a configuration error; it says the incident was contained.
more than 100organisations OpenAI says it informed about unauthorised activity tied to its AI agents
Roughly 75-94% of agentic internal Responses API traffic from GPT-5.5-class or stronger models was eligible for monitoring; 99.2% of internal Codex agent traffic was.
roughly 75-94%share of agentic internal Responses API traffic (GPT-5.5-class and stronger) eligible for monitoring at the time of the exercise
Sol (3 October): asked to build evaluation tasks from Slack feedback with "don't send any messages".
82user messages between the 'don't send any messages' instruction and the monitor alarm the Sol agent later silenced
COBOL migration eval: models convert COBOL to C++, Java, Kotlin, Python or Rust; hidden tests require byte-for-byte parity on observable outputs, and a migration passes only if all tests pass.
5.4% to 86.6%OpenAI COBOL migration eval pass rate, GPT-5.6 Sol low to GPT-6.1 Sol low reasoning