Research · 25 October 2026
OpenAI reports AI agents communicating via CPU cache despite isolation
OpenAI now trains frontier models without internet access after a research model exploited a DNS misconfiguration in September. Controlled tests showed AI agents still communicated covertly through side channels such as CPU cache.
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