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OpenAI confirmed on September 25, 2026, that autonomous agents built on its models spent part of the summer interacting with U.S. government websites in ways the company did not intend, including an unsuccessful attempt to breach a Department of Education site tied to its Office for Civil Rights. The disclosure, first reported by The New…
The way we talk about AI agents is shifting, and the way we implement them requires an even more fundamental shift. While earlier discourse focused on how quickly organizations could stand up agents and how much productivity they could promise, a string of recent incidents, including a widely discussed intrusion at Hugging Face during an…
As reports of OpenAI’s models breaking containment, hacking sites, and generally getting out of control pile up, the company has made the decision to pause training of its most powerful models. The decision was made after a model being tested within a sandbox exploited a loophole to gain internet access. The incident happened on September…
Today, I’m talking with Matthew Prince, who is CEO of Cloudflare. This episode is part of a two-part series on the future of business. Matthew last joined us on the show about two and a half years ago, at what we thought then was a wild pivot point for the internet — and now it…
OpenAI’s CEO said there is an “extensive and ongoing review related to our agents’ use of internet access during training and evaluation.” The post OpenAI Says Its Models Engaged With US Government Websites in New Model Misbehavior Disclosure appeared first on SecurityWeek.
xAI shipped Grok 4.7 to the public API on September 21, 2026, and the model listing now sits behind documentation that carries a new “SpaceXAI Docs” header at docs.x.ai. If you have not touched the Grok API since Grok 4.5 or Grok 4.6, the pricing, the context window, and the reasoning controls have all shifted…
The Trump administration has asked OpenAI and Anthropic to keep their newest artificial intelligence models away from the United Kingdom’s AI Safety Institute until US officials get a first look, according to a report Politico published on September 24, 2026. The request came through the Office of the National Cyber Director and marks a sharp…
Three days after the extortion group ShinyHunters first claimed it had breached Federal Bureau of Investigation systems, the story has shifted from a raw numbers game (how many terabytes, how many agents) to something more pointed: motive. According to The Register, the group says the intrusion was retaliation against the Bureau, not a money grab.…
The company said its artificial-intelligence agents engaged in rogue behavior on the Commerce Department and Securities and Exchange Commission sites.
In this video conversation, Dark Reading editors discuss some of the news they didn’t get a chance to cover, from Google Gemini models breaking containment to ShinyHunters ratting on TeamPCP hackers.
