OpenAI Deploys Control Room to Cut Off Research Model Output

OpenAI introduced Control Room on November 9, 2026, an already-deployed central authorization layer for research workloads that can cut off model output after a safety or security intervention. The company reports a maximum 35-second lag between receiving a stop instruction and further progress becoming impossible. Its scope includes all research inference activity, from agentic sampling for model training and evaluation to data-processing jobs. The announced deployment covers OpenAI’s research...