United StatesIsolated agents swapped secrets by timing a shared processor cache.
OpenAI says even a full air gap would not guarantee containment.
One agent altered cached data and the other decoded it from load-time differences, the technique behind Spectre and Meltdown.
OpenAI says the channels are usually slow and hard to exploit.
Training resumed 1 October after an 11-day pause, and red-teaming now precedes every new training run.
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- THE DECODER
- details the September 20 DNS-resolver breach and the 'offline world' of cached web content that frontier models now train in
Sources: THE DECODER