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Received — 14 October 2026 ⏭

Amit Forlit, the Israeli Private Eye at the Heart of a Climate Hacking Scandal

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By: Karen Zraick and Gabby Sobelman
14 October 2026 at 10:13
He’s been linked to someone called “The Hawk.” He named his company “This Isn’t a Dentist’s Office.” The feds say he hacked American environmentalists.

© Mark Harris

Received — 9 October 2026 ⏭

Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept. Website

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By: Kate Conger · Mike Isaac · Julian E. Barnes and David E. Sanger
10 October 2026 at 14:01
The Philadelphia Police Department said the agents had also sent in a false homicide tip. The incidents led the White House to call for better disclosure of rogue A.I. behavior.

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Broad Street in Philadelphia near the Police Department’s headquarters, with City Hall in the distance.
Received — 6 October 2026 ⏭

South Korea Investigates Possible Use of A.I. in Hackings on Its Banks

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By: Laura Chung and Jin Yu Young
6 October 2026 at 04:51
The president said there were signs that such models were used in recent attacks on several banks involving customer data. Police are investigating.

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Hana Bank was one of several financial institutions in South Korea affected by recent cyberattacks.
Received — 1 October 2026 ⏭

A Hacking Competition Shows the Power of China’s Approach to A.I.

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By: Cade Metz
1 October 2026 at 09:43
The winner of a cybersecurity contest prevailed by relying on an ‘open weight’ Chinese model — another sign that available A.I. systems could already be too powerful to easily regulate.

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Pavel Gurvich, the chief executive of the cybersecurity company Tenzai. Mr. Gurvich’s firm won the HackerOne contest by using a freely available Chinese A.I. model.
Received — 29 September 2026 ⏭

OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models

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By: Sheera Frenkel · Dustin Volz and Dylan Freedman
29 September 2026 at 18:53
Employees and security researchers said that they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but that OpenAI did not listen.

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OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman.
Received — 26 September 2026 ⏭

OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites

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By: Kate Conger · Ana Swanson and Cecilia Kang
25 September 2026 at 21:37
The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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OpenAI’s headquarters in San Francisco.
Received — 25 September 2026 ⏭

How OpenAI’s Rogue A.I. Agents Tried to Trick a Robot Detector

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By: Dylan Freedman and Keith Collins
25 September 2026 at 16:26
A new report by a Bay Area start-up called Parse adds details to an incident that has shocked the A.I. world and led to calls for closer government regulation.

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Sam Altman, center, OpenAI’s chief executive, spoke at a Security Council meeting during the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday.
Received — 24 September 2026 ⏭

OpenAI’s A.I. Tried Breaching Four Other Targets, With No Prompting

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By: Kate Conger and Victoria Kim
24 September 2026 at 12:49
In each incident, the technology appeared to be conducting mundane data collection and resorted to hacking techniques to get it, researchers said.

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OpenAI’s offices in San Francisco. At least four times this year, the company’s artificial intelligence hacked or tried to break into government and university websites without being instructed to do so.
Received — 22 September 2026 ⏭

Anthropic Releases a New A.I. Model, Opus 5.5, Amid Safety Debate

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By: Emmy Martin
22 September 2026 at 14:06
The company released a cheaper, faster model that it said was the strongest performer on its most rigorous internal safety tests to date.

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Anthropic’s new artificial intelligence model, Opus 5.5, was the first release since the company’s chief executive called for the industry to slow down.

What to Know About Recent A.I. Hacks at Google, Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta

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By: Kate Conger
22 September 2026 at 05:03
OpenAI, Google and others recently disclosed breaches by their artificial intelligence models that amplified concerns about the advancing capabilities of the technology.

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An analysis of one recent hack by OpenAI technology helped to reveal how A.I. agents communicated with one another.
Received — 19 September 2026 ⏭

Gemini AI Hacked Three Companies in a Testing Breakout, Google Says

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By: Kate Conger
18 September 2026 at 20:31
A third-party test company inadvertently gave internet access to Google’s Gemini and other artificial intelligence models during cybersecurity testing.

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The Gemini incidents occurred while the model was undergoing testing at Irregular, an Israeli start-up that works with tech companies to assess their A.I. models before they are publicly released.
Received — 18 September 2026 ⏭

Will A.I. Kill Us? Can It Hack My Bank Account? Your A.I. Questions Answered

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By: Cade Metz · Dylan Freedman and K. R. Callaway
18 September 2026 at 05:04
Nearly 1,000 readers sent us their questions about artificial intelligence, its potential and its potential risks.

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Some people worry that connecting A.I. agents to the internet or vital infrastructure will wreak havoc in unexpected ways, while others worry that researchers will soon develop A.I. systems that have agency.
Received — 14 September 2026 ⏭
Received — 12 September 2026 ⏭

Anthropic C.E.O. Dario Amodei Calls for A.I. Slowdown

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By: Mike Isaac
12 September 2026 at 20:15
In an essay, the head of Anthropic laid out the rapidly advancing capabilities of artificial intelligence and said there needed to be greater safety controls across the industry.

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Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s chief executive, in February. “Over the last few months, I have become convinced that fully addressing the risks requires even more prudence,” he wrote in an essay.
Received — 3 September 2026 ⏭

Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I.

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By: Kevin Roose
4 September 2026 at 12:12
The attack by an aggressive “collective” of OpenAI agents shows the danger of artificial intelligence systems that organize themselves.

© Daniel Zender

How OpenAI Limited the Probe of Its Bots’ Hack of Hugging Face

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By: Dylan Freedman
4 September 2026 at 11:15
Researchers investigating how OpenAI’s A.I. agents were able to break into Hugging Face’s infrastructure weren’t allowed to look at the incident’s full scope.

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Hjalmar Wijk, METR chief scientist, left, and Ajeya Cotra, METR researcher, at their research center in Berkeley, Calif.
Received — 27 August 2026 ⏭

OpenAI and 100 Others Warn That Window to Defend Against A.I. Attacks Is Narrowing

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By: Kate Conger
27 August 2026 at 13:55
In an open letter, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others said that a wave of A.I.-enabled cyberattacks was coming and that organizations and governments needed to prepare themselves.

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Sam Altman of OpenAI, which has joined more than 100 tech companies in publishing an open letter warning of a wave of cyberattacks driven by artificial intelligence.
Received — 25 August 2026 ⏭
Received — 24 August 2026 ⏭

After Hugging Face Was Attacked By A.I. Agents, It Embarked on a Crusade

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By: Kate Conger
24 August 2026 at 14:07
Hugging Face, a start-up that was breached by rogue bots from OpenAI, is using the hack to push for openness in A.I. development.

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Clément Delangue, the chief executive of Hugging Face, which is a vocal supporter of open-source artificial intelligence.
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