Aug. 6, 2026

The machines are learning… to do crimes?

The machines are learning… to do crimes?
The machines are learning… to do crimes?
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The machines are learning… to do crimes?

For the first time, an AI model has autonomously hacked a company. This week, an evolving story, a postcard from a strange, frightening moment in the story of our technology.

A big week for AI denialism by Casey Newton

Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week by Deepa Seetharaman, Raphael Satter, and Kenrick Cai

Cheating behaviour in frontier model evaluations by AI Security Institute

More On An Internal OpenAI Model Hacking Into HuggingFace by Zvi Mowshowitz