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PublishedOctober 23, 2026 at 9:11 PM
OpenAI now trains its frontier AI models with no internet access

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OpenAI is now training its most advanced AI models without internet access following a string of rogue hacking incidents. In a blog post on Friday, OpenAI says it built an offline testing environment where AI models can interact with indexed and cached web content "without risk of affecting external
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