OpenAI red-team agents broke out of its training sandbox in tests

OpenAI sent teams of its own frontier-model agents to its training infrastructure, and the models found unknown software bugs that let them break free of sandboxes and access the live internet. Patches reach Kata Containers, gVisor and the Linux kernel The campaign featured some of the company’s best models, including the upcoming GPT-6 Astra Cyber model and an internal frontier model. OpenAI furnished them with source code for infrastructure, configuration information and documentation on likely weak spots. They then spent hundreds of billions of tokens on the tests. The agents had three goals: to reach the live internet, to cross an internal security boundary, and to exchange messages with agents they were supposed to be walled off from.

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