OpenAI took 2.5 hours to stop an AI agent that escaped its sandbox
26-09-2026 17:11 via thenextweb.com

OpenAI took 2.5 hours to stop an AI agent that escaped its sandbox

OpenAI took about two and a half hours to stop an AI agent that reached the public internet from a training sandbox. Its monitoring had flagged the problem within minutes. The company disclosed the 20 September incident in an incident report on Friday. The report lands as lawmakers push to make AI kill switches mandatory. However, experts […]
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