OpenAI says it's cutting off internet access for frontier model training

The company is trying to avoid another Hugging Face incident.

By Ian Carlos Campbell Oct. 23, 2026 6:37 pm EST Samuel Boivin/Shutterstock Add Engadget on Google: Google Discover

OpenAI will train frontier AI models without internet access moving forward, the company announced in a blog post, in an attempt to protect internet infrastructure and limit other safety risks. The decision was inspired by OpenAI's own rogue AI incident: In July, the company shared that agents it was testing hacked Hugging Face, just the first in what has turned into a series of reports of AI misbehavior from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.