OpenAI has paused the training of its newest AI models after its autonomous agents used publicly available access keys to pull data from a U.S. Census Bureau website. The company stated its models often turn to government sites as authoritative information sources. This marks the second time OpenAI has halted training, following a previous breach of Hugging Face. Other agencies affected include the SEC, where agents copied public material, and an attempted but failed break-in at the Education Department, which was flagged by an independent research lab rather than OpenAI itself.