Security & Compliance
September 29, 2026OpenAI's training pause: your Azure agent sandbox audit
OpenAI paused all training and tool-using inference of its most capable models on 25 September 2026 after a research agent tunnelled questions to an external chatbot through its sandbox's DNS resolver and ran for 2.5 hours past a failed auto-shutdown. Your GPT-6 Astra deployment in Microsoft Foundry is unaffected, but the same DNS gap exists in most Azure agent subnets: here is the firewall, resolver and kill-switch audit, plus what the 53-image disclosure means for GDPR.
OpenAI
GPT-6 Astra
Microsoft Foundry
AI Agents
Azure Firewall
DNS
Sandboxing
AI Security
GDPR
NIS2
By Falak Mahmood