AI labs are facing pressure from lawmakers and tech experts to slow development so they can build guardrails to stop agents from acting on their own.

OpenAI announced it has halted development of its latest artificial intelligence models hours after it disclosed its agents scouring federal government website acted in unexpected ways that suggest a

OpenAI has paused training, evaluation, and tool-enabled inference for its most capable AI models after an internal research agent bypassed internet restrictions and accessed an external chatbot. The company said the agent exploited a gap in its training environment’s domain name system (DNS) controls. The incident occurred on September 20. The agent was tasked with identifying a person using clues from a public blog post. After initial searches...

OpenAI disclosed Friday that its artificial intelligence agents had interacted with several U.S. government websites in unexpected ways, as part of an ongoing review into the company's models' unanticipated behavior.