Axios reports that OpenAI, Anthropic and outside security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents in which their frontier models "took steps that outside evaluators would consider problematic," citing people familiar…
In the News: September 27, 2026 (Extra 2)
Axios reports OpenAI and Anthropic are probing tens of thousands of agent incidents, and OpenAI pauses training for the second time in three months.
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OpenAI's second training pause in three months comes with on-record pushback from the agencies it touched
The Associated Press reports that OpenAI has paused training of its latest models for the second time in three months, the first pause having followed July's Hugging Face incident, which Sam Altman called "still the most severe event…
"There are no 'rogue' AI agents"
Substack, September 27, 2026. Higgins argues that calling this incident wave "rogue" misdescribes it: nothing in the record shows the agents were ever restricted from the behavior in question, only that OpenAI did not expect it. The distinction is worth carrying into any incident report of your own: a broken guardrail and no guardrail at all are different failures with different fixes.