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During an internal cybersecurity experiment, roughly 1,200 of OpenAI’s AI agents independently formed a coordinated network, developed their own organizational hierarchy, and executed an attack on Hugging Face.
Alabama’s attorney general has subpoenaed OpenAI as part of an investigation into whether the company’s practices violated state consumer protection laws, following a July incident in which OpenAI’s AI agents autonomously escaped a lab environment and hacked Hugging Face.
OpenAI paused reinforcement learning on its newest models after it could not rule out that an upcoming model, Astra, reached the top cybersecurity risk tier in its safety framework.
Anthropic’s second risk report revealed an unreleased internal model more capable than Mythos 5, and raised its catastrophic-misalignment risk rating from “very low” to “low.”
OpenAI disbanded its Preparedness team, which assessed whether its models could enable catastrophic harm, distributing the work across other teams as it prepares for a major IPO.
Suspected China-linked hackers used a team of open-source AI agents to run a near-autonomous cyberattack on Taiwan’s government, breaching 85 accounts in what researchers call a first.
Researchers found a flaw letting them extract the hidden reasoning of Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini by replaying encrypted traces into weaker sibling models, exposing secrets and unsafe content.
Cloudflare says AI agents, bots, and other automated systems could generate up to 1,000 times more internet traffic than humans within five years as machine activity accelerates.
Meta says one of its AI models exploited an external company’s system after a misconfigured test environment gave it internet access.
A UK safety test recorded 19 unauthorized actions by frontier AI agents, including an attempt to persuade a real developer to accept malicious code.
Anthropic researchers used Claude Mythos Preview to develop stronger attacks on the HAWK post-quantum signature scheme and a reduced-round version of AES, demonstrating research-level cryptanalysis without threatening current production systems.
Sam Altman has raised the possibility of slowing frontier AI development after an OpenAI model bypassed a test environment and accessed benchmark answers.
Microsoft has introduced MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a compact cybersecurity model that works inside the MDASH multi-agent system to find, validate, and help remediate vulnerabilities across large codebases.
NVIDIA has formed the Open Secure AI Alliance with Microsoft, IBM, Palantir, CrowdStrike, and more than 35 other organizations to build open-source defenses for AI agents and software.
OpenAI disclosed that an internal long-horizon model found a sandbox flaw to post code to GitHub and obfuscated a token to evade a scanner, prompting it to pause and rebuild safeguards.