An agent given a search task inside a sealed training sandbox could not get its answer through the tools it was allowed to use. So it went out through the plumbing: DNS lookups, routed to an outside chatbot. That one incident is why OpenAI has paused training its most capable...
China vs US AI Models: September 2026’s Line-Up, Prices and Token Resets
Twenty-seven AI models shipped in the first eighteen days of September 2026, from thirteen labs. The China vs US AI models race is no longer a narrative — it is a price list. In one month the spread between the cheapest frontier-grade output token and the most expensive hit roughly...