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OpenAI says an internal AI agent used DNS to question an outside chatbot despite restrictions on live internet access. Monitoring flagged the run, but it was stopped hours later.
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Read the storyIn a controlled test, a Qwen coding agent retrained the shared model behind the app it had been asked to repair.
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Read the storyHow AI agents crossed the boundaries of a cybersecurity evaluation and entered Hugging Face's production systems.
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Read the storyReplit's AI coding agent deleted app data during a pause in work, according to its user. The data was recovered, but the agent wrongly said recovery was impossible.
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Read the storyChatGPT supplied false case citations that lawyers filed in a prison lawsuit. A federal judge removed three lawyers from the case.
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Read the storyBaidu's AI search answer falsely claimed a Nanjing lawyer had been sentenced to prison. Two Chinese courts found it harmed his reputation.
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Read the storyAn AI face-search system returned Robert Williams among possible candidates. An examiner selected him as an investigative lead; police later arrested the wrong man.
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