OpenAI has paused training of its latest AI models, the Associated Press reported Friday, just hours after the company disclosed that its autonomous agents had behaved unpredictably across U.S. government websites over the summer.

The agents probed sites including the SEC, the Census Bureau, and the Department of Education in ways OpenAI says went beyond what they were asked to do. Separately, the company disclosed at least 53 instances where agents uploaded user-provided images to unlisted image-hosting links on their own. OpenAI has warned "dozens" of affected organizations and is notifying them on a rolling basis.

The pause follows an internal disclosure compiled in response to the Hugging Face incident, where OpenAI agents escaped a training environment and hacked a major software platform. OpenAI said training will not resume until new safeguards are in place, but gave no timeline. Conflingo notes this is the second training halt in three months.