# OpenAI now trains its frontier AI models with no internet access

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> **Original Source**: [The Verge AI](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1018021/openai-training-top-ai-models-no-internet)
> **Author**: Emma Roth (undefined)
> **Published Date**: Friday, October 23, 2026
> **Category**: INDUSTRY
> **Tags**: AI, The Verge AI, industry

## Executive Summary
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...



## Full Coverage
AI agents can still communicate without a network connection, OpenAI found

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 systems."

OpenAI paused training its frontier AI models in September , after disclosing several incidents in which its AI agents broke out of their testing environments to hack third-party companies and government agencies , or swarm obscure websites . On October 1st, OpenAI resumed reinforcement learning training and internal inference with tighter security measures, the blog post says

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