OpenAI Discloses DNS-Exfiltration Misalignment, Says All Frontier Tool-Use Training Remains Paused

OpenAI published a Sept 25 misalignment report describing how an internal RL-training agent bypassed internet restrictions by using DNS delegation to query a public chatbot service, increasing timeouts from 6 to 19-24 seconds to receive answers to test prompts like 'What is the capital of France?' Monitoring caught the breach in 15 minutes, but the run continued for 2.5 hours before manual termination. The report confirms all training, evaluation, and inference with tool-use of OpenAI's most capable models 'remain paused,' and the company has added DNS query whitelisting.