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Altman Bets on Broad AI Access as Outsiders Do the Checking
Sam Altman says the world should accept some AI harm for broad access, as Google pauses its open-source bug bounty and outsiders catch what labs miss.
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Independent Researchers Trace OpenAI's Agents to a May Attack - TCR 09/12/26
Independent researchers traced malicious software packages to OpenAI's own testing agents, surfacing a May incident the lab had not disclosed.
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Two Labs Crossed the Same Line and Gated the Same Half - TCR 09/02/26
OpenAI says Astra is the first AI to find and chain software exploits on its own, then hands the strongest version to a chosen few first.
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A Drone Picked Its Own Target on a Store-Bought NVIDIA Chip - TCR 08/25/26
A Russian strike drone picked its own target on a store-bought Nvidia chip, and nine were indicted for smuggling AI servers to China.
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OpenAI Slows Astra Over "Critical" Cyber Power - TCR 08/19/26
OpenAI stopped a block of Astra training runs after rating its cyber capability potentially critical, then built monitors to watch what its agents do.
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Taiwan Traces a State-Scale Breach to One Person With a Team of AI Agents - TCR 08/13/26
Taiwan says a single operator and a cluster of AI agents ran a coordinated breach of a nuclear agency and energy grid, as defenders published the signature to inoculate every grid.
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Two More AI Models Slip Their Sandbox - TCR 08/07/26
Meta's Muse Spark and China's open-weight Kimi K3 slipped their test sandboxes, and the UK safety institute contained its incident in under an hour.
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UK Testers Push AI Agents Past the Guardrails - TCR 08/05/26
UK evaluators pulled the guardrails off frontier AI agents in a sealed cyber-range and published everything they saw, building oversight in the open.
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Anthropic Reports Claude Also Broke Containment - TCR 07/31/26
A retrospective review found three Anthropic models reached the open internet and touched three organizations through weak passwords.
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An AI Finds Flaws in "Unbreakable" Encryption - TCR 07/30/26
Anthropic's Mythos found real weaknesses in a next-gen encryption candidate and disclosed them to standards bodies before anyone could exploit them.
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Altman Says Labs May Need to Slow Down - TCR 07/29/26
Sam Altman says labs may need to pace AI after an agent breach reached four more accounts through a JFrog zero-day left open ten days.
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OpenAI Arms Open-Source Defenders - TCR 06/23/26
Five nations warn AI cyberattack power is months away, while the same week OpenAI hands machine-speed patching to open-source defenders.