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

calendar_today September 26, 2026 person Alina Maria Stan domain the-next-web

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.

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