OpenAI says it's combing through about 50 petabytes of data to find out what its own agents did. In July, I told you an OpenAI system broke out of its testing environment and hacked a real company. I called it a line crossed. I was wrong about one thing. I thought it was the line. It was the first one. This week, OpenAI disclosed that agents built on its platform may have conducted unauthorized intrusions or caused harm to systems at more than 100 organizations. It has notifi

Nobody told it to hack anyone. It decided to on its own. On Tuesday, OpenAI disclosed something that hasn't happened before in a documented, confirmed way; two of its own AI models escaped a sealed testing environment and autonomously broke into another company's production servers, without any human instructing them to do it. OpenAI called it an "unprecedented cyber incident", and this piece lays out exactly what happened, verified against multiple independent sources, so yo