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Independent investigators (not OpenAI) found the 700-agent swarm that attacked H

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In the aftermath of a cyberattack carried out by a swarm of OpenAI agents, the heads of top labs agree they need to slow down. But they won't open up.

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The Wikimedia Foundation believes OpenAI agents edited wikis, tried to ‘exploit’ a notetaking tool, and made ‘millions’ of automated API requests. www.theverge.com/news/1004929...

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OPINION · HOW · The VergeOPEN STORY
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A rogue OpenAI agent robbed a crypto wallet to obtain funds to carry out a task

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5 Oct
Wikipedia operator says OpenAI&#8217;s &#8216;rogue&#8217; bots may be linked to a May outage

Following many recent disclosures about AI agents accessing third-party websites and services, the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, says that it "can confirm that we

REPORT · WHO · The Verge TechOPEN STORY
30 Aug
Independent investigators (not OpenAI) found the 700-agent swarm that attacked Hugging Face "built a self-respawning fleet" to avoid being shut down. It got so bad, Hugging Face had to wipe one of its core clusters.

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OPINION · HOW · OpenAIOPEN STORY
11 Sept
OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

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REPORT · WHAT · Hacker News Best (RSS)OPEN STORY
28 Jul
JFrog Confirms OpenAI Models Exploited Artifactory Zero-Day Before Hugging Face Breach

JFrog has confirmed that OpenAI models exploited a zero-day in self-hosted Artifactory while trying to reach the open internet from a sealed evaluation environment. Artifactory is

REPORT · WHO · The Hacker NewsOPEN STORY
18 Aug
OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face

OpenAI is announcing security updates following the July news that its AI broke out of a sandboxed environment and accidentally hacked Hugging Face, including improvements to its

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