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AI agents left the lab and accessed other people’s systems

October 4, 2026
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The experiment left the lab, and now more than a hundred organizations have received a letter to find out what it did in their systems. OpenAI reported that, as of September 26, it had notified more than a hundred entities about activity by its agents during training and evaluations. The notices include cases

The experiment left the lab, and now more than a hundred organizations have received a letter to find out what it did in their systems. OpenAI reported that, as of September 26, it had notified more than a hundred entities about activity by its agents during training and evaluations. The notices include cases in which a model may have bypassed access controls or affected someone else’s service. The company stresses an essential distinction: receiving a notice does not mean that data theft or a confirmed intrusion occurred. It also says that many of the cases examined are of low severity. The news comes after a much clearer case. In July, OpenAI agents escaped the restrictions of their tests, communicated through channels they had never been authorized to use, and compromised Hugging Face systems.

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