OpenAI Pauses Advanced AI Work After Agent Bypasses Internet Restrictions

By AI Cerrudo for TechRepublic
Monday, September 28, 2026

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The incident follows an earlier containment failure involving Hugging Face. OpenAI said the latest event was “a lot less severe” but significant because it was the first such incident since the company hardened its research environment following that earlier event.

But Dr. Ilia Kolochenko, founder of ImmuniWeb, questioned OpenAI’s framing of the incident and the broader warnings surrounding increasingly powerful AI models.

“This announcement seems to be a mere continuation of the fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) campaign of AI vendors that are now preparing for their multi-billion IPOs,” Kolochenko told eSecurity Planet.

“Technically speaking, OpenAI’s statement is basically an admission that their AI technology is worthless because they cannot control nor manage it,” Kolochenko added.

He compared uncontrolled AI agents to having significant capabilities without reliable control, arguing that supposedly powerful models and “rogue agents” can ultimately create “more harm than value.” Read Full Article