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OpenAI staff observed warning signs before AI agent hacking crusade caused global alarm

The Guardian

OpenAI's Greg Brockman has said'we underestimated the real-world cyber capabilities of our AI models'. OpenAI's Greg Brockman has said'we underestimated the real-world cyber capabilities of our AI models'. Firm says'early signals could have triggered an earlier response' as it releases report into Hugging Face hack OpenAI staff observed signs of rogue behaviour among its leading-edge AI agents weeks before they escaped their training environment to launch an unprecedented hacking crusade that spread global alarm. The San Francisco AI company conceded on Wednesday that "early signals could have triggered an earlier response", as it released a report into the days-long July hack of a major software repository, Hugging Face, considered the first autonomous agent cyber-attack. As fresh details emerged about how "the collective" - a squad of about 700 autonomous agents - launched their campaign, celebrating their hacking breakthroughs with exclamations such as BOOM! and Whoa!, OpenAI said that in late May an internal team observed that one of its AI agents undergoing internal testing was using a message board that AIs had unexpectedly improvised to share information.


I built my own local AI -- and can control it from my phone

PCWorld

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. PCWorld built a self-hosted AI system with an MSI mini PC, a Framework Desktop, and Telegram -- making a local AI agent accessible from almost anywhere. There are many good reasons to avoid interacting with "AI" services. They're expensive, they're destructive, they're a privacy nightmare, they're morally dubious, and they're often controlled by people who are shall we say, unconcerned about the effects of their actions on others. But a lot of these problems can be solved if you decide to roll your own LLM.


Portable Computer is Perplexity's new local AI agent - why it's a game changer

ZDNet

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Portable Computer is Perplexity's new local AI agent - why it's a game changer Running an AI model locally, Perplexity's new Portable Computer can deliver faster performance, tighter security, and lower costs. But it has some strict requirements. Perplexity's new agentic Portable Computer runs AI locally. Local AI is faster and cheaper than cloud-based models. But you'll need some beefy hardware for Linux or Windows.


Businesses must reinvent their processes and workforce to scale agentic AI adoption

ZDNet

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Only 15% of US-based organizations have reached scaled, orchestrated, multi-agent adoption, according to the latest Deloitte research. J. David Ake/Getty Images Add us as a preferred source Only 15% of organizations have reached scaled multi-agentic orchestration. Most business leaders are reevaluating their business models in light of advances in agentic AI. Scaling agentic AI must begin with sufficient resources to transform the workforce. Most US-based companies are under pressure and working hard to shift from experimenting with AI agents to deploying them in production, according to the latest research from Deloitte .


The accountability vacuum: Agentic AI in high-stakes domains

AIHub

Agentic AI is no longer a research artifact. These systems are embedded in live infrastructure, clinical workflows, and legal processes: deleting databases, advising patients, and generating legal documents. Wrong outputs cannot simply be taken back. The central question has shifted from whether these systems are ready to make consequential decisions to who is accountable when they get those decisions wrong. The standard apparatus of fault-finding (identifying an actor, establishing a duty, connecting a breach to an injury) was built for a world in which agents are human, decisions are sequential, and causation is legible.


AI agent hacks gym system to move up waitlist

FOX News

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Business adoption of AI agents tripled this year - as measurable ROI emerges

ZDNet

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Industries are finding the strategies that work best for their business needs, according to Salesforce's latest Agentic Enterprise Index. The number of active AI agents in organizations has tripled in the last year. AI agents have improved their capabilities by 350% and can now handle complex tasks. Employee use of AI agents has increased 3X as trust deepens. The average number of AI agents activated per organization increased nearly threefold since 2025, according to the 2026 Agentic Enterprise Index, new research from Salesforce that analyzes aggregate AI usage data from the company's Agentforce platform.


#AAMAS2026 blue sky award winner: Foundation world models for agents in changing environments

AIHub

Florent Delgrange won the Best Blue Sky Paper Award at AAMAS 2026 for his work Foundation World Models for Agents that Learn, Verify, and Adapt Reliably Beyond Static Environments . We caught up with him to find out more about his vision for agent learning. What is the topic of your Blue Sky Ideas paper and why is it an interesting area for study? My Blue Sky Ideas paper asks a simple but difficult question: how can an autonomous agent keep learning as its world changes without quietly losing the guarantees that made its behavior trustworthy? Reinforcement learning and formal methods address complementary parts of this problem.


'Specialists aren't required' anymore: How to stay valuable in an AI agent workplace today

ZDNet

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen'Specialists aren't required' anymore: How to stay valuable in an AI agent workplace today Versatility is in, with people expected to work across the tech stack. Polymaths will be in high demand in the age of AI. These adaptable professionals will embrace agents. They will ally AI skills with deep subject expertise. Experts recognize that agentic AI is changing the workplace.


Rogue AI Agents Aren't Evil. They're Just Eager to Please

WIRED

They're Just Eager to Please AI agents that break free and hack into other systems are only trying to make us happy. Artificial intelligence agents merrily breaking free and hacking other systems might seem like a sign of the impending machine uprising . In reality, it happens when we push remarkably clever, but also kind of boneheaded, algorithms to follow our every command. I was first alerted to this looming agentic AI cybersecurity shit show in late 2025. Dawn Song, a UC Berkeley professor and one of the world's top experts on AI and cybersecurity, grabbed my arm as I was walking out of the academic conference NeurIPS.