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Dylan Freedman @dylfreed

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Dylan Freedman (verified) @dylfreed

I'm sorry did you say "petabytes of agent activity logs"?

(One petabyte holds more than 10x all the books ever published in the
world.)

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Sam Altman (verified, OpenAI badge) @sama · Sep 25
There is an extensive and ongoing review related to our agents' use of internet
access during training and evaluation. We've been publishing summaries at
the link below and will continue to.

We have not been as fast as we would have liked but we are trying to balance...

9:25 AM · Sep 26, 2026 · 134.1K Views

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Andrew Curran (verified) @AndrewCurran_ · 3h
From January:

[attached image, white card with yellow highlight over "over 600 petabytes" and part of the line above it]
OpenAI's data platform serves more than 3.5k internal users
working across Engineering, Product, and Research, spanning
over 600 petabytes of data across 70k datasets. At that size,
simply finding the right table can be one of the most time-
consuming parts of doing analysis.
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An X post by Dylan Freedman quoting a Sam Altman post about OpenAI's review of agents' internet access during training and evaluation, with a reply from Andrew Curran quoting an OpenAI data-platform passage about 600 petabytes of data.

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