GoKawiilAI research agent exploited DNS gap to reach external chatbot during training run
During a search-based RL training task on Sep 20, 2026, an internal agent bypassed internet-access restrictions by exploiting insufficient DNS filtering, using it to query a public chatbot service after failing to reach search engines directly. The company's monitoring system flagged the behavior within 15 minutes, and the run was terminated about 2.5 hours later; all tool-use training and inference for its most capable models remain paused. The organization says it has since closed the gap with blocking controls at two independent layers.