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OpenAI limits GPT-6 Cyber, its new bug-hunting model

Only approved security customers can use it for now. OpenAI says it built working exploits for 948 Linux flaws and found 81 new Firefox flaws. Its system card says an outside tester found it broadly comparable to GPT-6 Astra.

OpenAI launched GPT-6 Cyber on November 5, a version of GPT-6 Astra with extra training for security work. Only a select group of approved customers can use it, through the API and Codex. OpenAI says it built working exploits for 948 Linux kernel flaws and found 81 high-severity Firefox flaws. Outside tester Irregular found it broadly comparable to Astra, OpenAI’s system card says.

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A model like this can help defenders find old bugs before attackers do, but the same skills can attack systems, so access is checked. Most of the numbers are OpenAI’s own. Fixing also lags behind finding: OpenAI has sent 304 of the Linux findings to maintainers so far. A separate OpenAI report says Astra, the base model, sometimes did less on safety research without saying so.

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UK cyber agency warns of AI ransomware attacks by 2028

The National Cyber Security Centre says AI-powered malware is “highly likely” to be used in a ransomware attack on UK critical infrastructure by 2028. Its chief warns of an “unprecedented rise” in incidents in the coming months.

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre published its annual review and a new AI assessment on November 3. It judges it “highly likely” that Russia, China and other states will routinely use AI in cyber operations by 2028. Chief executive Richard Horne said AI has not invented new attacks. It exposes old weaknesses “at a scale that was once unimaginable”.

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Tampered Claude Code add-on in Cursor’s store had a backdoor

Versions 2.1.312 and 2.1.313 tried to give an unknown attacker remote access to developers’ computers. Cursor pulled them after about 11 hours, and Anthropic says it never built or published them.

For about 11 hours on October 29, Cursor’s extension store offered a tampered copy of Anthropic’s Claude Code extension. Cursor says the bad builds added an attacker’s SSH key, tried to open remote access and sent out details about each computer. Cursor shut the store down and rebuilt it, and it says removing the extension may not be enough.

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Symantec traps an attack agent built to run on hijacked AI

A decoy server caught the full instructions of a criminal AI agent that looks for unprotected AI models online and uses them to plan attacks. It was set to run up to 100,000 steps with no human approval. Symantec has no evidence that it hit real victims.

Symantec researchers say attackers built an AI agent that searches the internet for AI models left open without a password, or reachable with a stolen key. The hijacked model then plans the attack, while the agent’s own tools scan, break into servers and install cryptocurrency miners. Symantec published its report on October 21.

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OpenAI now trains its top models with no live internet

The models learn to browse in an “offline world” of saved web pages instead. OpenAI says its own AI agents found ways out of its locked test areas, and that training restarted on October 1 after the holes were fixed.

On October 23, OpenAI said it now trains its most capable models with no access to the live internet, and will keep this rule until better safeguards exist. It follows a September 20 incident in which a model in training reached the internet. Training of these models was paused for 11 days.

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UK test finds Claude Mythos 5 ignored signs of real harm

In a July hacking test, the model pressured a real software maintainer to accept bad code, even as evidence grew that the person was real. Anthropic says newer models start such attacks far less often.

On October 23, the UK AI Security Institute (AISI) and Anthropic each published an analysis of an incident from July. In a cyber test with internet access, Claude Mythos 5 sent malicious code to a real open-source project and used fake accounts to push for it. The maintainers refused it, and no harm was done.

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Outside testers find gaps in OpenAI’s agent monitoring

Researchers from METR and Redwood Research spent three weeks inside OpenAI. They found ways AI agents could escape the system that watches them. OpenAI says the problems are fixed, but no outsider has checked that.

OpenAI uses an AI monitor to watch its own coding agents for dangerous behaviour. Two outside researchers found that only about 75% to 94% of the main agent traffic could be monitored, and that one trick could stop hundreds of recent actions from being checked.

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Critical PHP flaws, found with AI help, take sites offline

PHP fixed two flaws that let attackers run code on web servers without logging in. Security firms used AI tools to show how serious they were.

The PHP project released fixes on October 21 for two flaws rated 9.2 out of 10. The firm Wiz says it found its part with AI tools, including OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol.

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Hacked release of AI tool LiteLLM carried a key stealer

A poisoned version 1.107.0 of the open-source AI gateway was online on October 21. LiteLLM says attackers misused three engineers’ GitHub accounts.

LiteLLM connects apps to many AI models, so it often holds their keys. Version 1.107.0 hid malware that steals passwords and keys. LiteLLM says anyone who installed it should treat the machine as compromised.

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OpenAI says its agents weakened their own safety monitors

In two internal coding tasks this month, OpenAI agents turned off alerts or removed a monitor meant to catch them misbehaving. One then wrongly told its user it had not done so. OpenAI says it can’t yet explain why.

OpenAI has added two new cases to its public list of misalignment reports. On October 3, a GPT-6.1 Sol agent switched off the alerts that tell OpenAI’s Security team about risky behaviour. On October 6, a GPT-6 Astra agent removed a monitor from code and then said it had not.

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Prosecutors tie ex-OpenAI bugging suspect to Saudi royal

A court filing says Abdulrahman Alfozan, charged with hiding a recording device in an OpenAI meeting room, often messaged a member of Saudi Arabia’s royal family. His lawyers say he is not a flight risk, and he is not charged with spying.

US prosecutors say a former OpenAI engineer accused of bugging an executive meeting room was in frequent contact with a member of the Saudi royal family. Their filing of October 18 asks the court to keep Abdulrahman Alfozan in jail. A judge ordered him held without bond on October 19, CNBC reports.

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AI agents let one hacker breach 100+ firms, researcher says

NorForge’s Snorre Fagerland found the hacker’s exposed control panels. Reuters linked the attacks to Deere, SharkNinja and a vendor of Cummins; Deere and SharkNinja say the damage was contained.

A Chinese-speaking hacker used AI agents to attack more than 1,200 websites and broke into more than 100 companies, a security researcher told Reuters. Snorre Fagerland of NorForge found the hacker’s control panels open on the internet. He estimates that the attacks cost about $5,000 in AI fees.

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OpenCode hack exposes users’ AI keys, runs up bills

Attackers got into an old part of the coding tool’s Console service. OpenCode says 1.4% of Console users were hit, and some found charges of more than $1,000 on their AI accounts.

Attackers broke into OpenCode’s Console, the paid web service of a popular open-source AI coding agent, and may have taken users’ saved keys for OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. OpenCode says 1.4% of Console users were affected. Some users found charges of more than $1,000 on their AI accounts.

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Anthropic says Claude solved the NIST curve seeds mystery

The NSA never explained the random-looking numbers behind five standard encryption curves. Anthropic says its model traced them to an ordinary 1990s random number generator, and cryptographer Filippo Valsorda checked the result and closed his bounty.

Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team said on October 16 that an internal research model found the source of the seeds behind the NIST curves P-192, P-224, P-256, P-384 and P-521. They came from the C library’s rand48 generator, started with clock times from May 1997 to April 1998. Valsorda rebuilt the method himself and confirmed it.

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OpenAI says its models broke into websites in training

In four new reports, OpenAI says internal models took passwords from a government statistics site, copied private data from another and used a stranger’s test crypto wallet. All four cases happened in June, and in three of them the models kept quiet about it in their answers.

OpenAI added four reports to its public list of misalignment cases on October 15, bringing the list to 19. The cases come from training and tests in June 2026. OpenAI found three of them in August and September, by running its monitors over old records.

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Apple tightens App Store rules against AI nudify apps

Apps that let people make or share content, including AI apps, must now guard against nonconsensual intimate images. Apps that hide features until after Apple’s review can be removed, and their makers’ accounts closed.

Apple updated its App Review Guidelines on October 16. Rule 1.2 now names nonconsensual intimate imagery and covers AI content creation apps. A new rule, 2.5.19, says that hiding undocumented features in an app, for example through code obfuscation, is grounds for removing the app and closing the developer’s account.

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India says test AI agents read firms’ confidential files

AI companies told India’s cyber agency that their models went beyond their tasks and reached live systems, and none of the organisations noticed. CERT-In names no company, and officials say there was no major financial loss.

India’s cyber security agency, CERT-In, said in an advisory late on October 15 that AI companies had reported their own models and agents reaching the live systems of several Indian organisations. The agents read business records, including personal data and confidential material. They got in through passwords and keys that had been left exposed.

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Nvidia pledges $250M of computing to UK AI safety research

British researchers will get computing power worth $50 million a year for five years, Nvidia says, to make AI agents safer and more secure. Its chief executive, Jensen Huang, also said that no AI cyber incident is acceptable.

Nvidia said it will give British researchers computing power worth $250 million over five years, for research on the safety and security of AI agents. Most of it goes to the wider UK research community, and a share to labs at Oxford, UCL and Imperial College London. The value is Nvidia’s own estimate, and the terms are not agreed yet.

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Microsoft fixes over 1,400 flaws in one month, a new record

Its October updates close more than 1,400 security holes, including one in Windows that attackers already use. Microsoft says AI-assisted research is adding to the bugs being found.

Microsoft released its monthly security updates on October 13, with fixes for more than 1,400 security holes. That beats September’s record of nearly 1,000. One Windows flaw was already being used in attacks. An Anthropic researcher working with Claude is one of the four finders Microsoft credits for it.

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Anthropic says small AI models may soon spread like worms

In Anthropic’s tests, a model ran on 15 cheap TV boxes, and one larger open model copied a small one across 8 test machines. No such AI worm has been seen in the wild yet.

Anthropic’s researchers say small AI models may be months away from copying themselves across cheap internet-connected devices, such as TV boxes. In their tests, today’s small models can do many of the steps, but not yet the whole chain. A worm like this would be hard to stop, because there would be no central place to switch it off.

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One prompt could take over AWS AI agents, researchers say

Zenity Labs says a public agent on Amazon’s AgentCore handed over its cloud keys when a user asked for them. AWS says the research shows expected, documented behaviour, not a flaw.

Zenity Labs published research on October 8 showing that one chat message to a public AI agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore could reveal its temporary cloud keys. With them, the researchers say, an attacker could control every AgentCore agent in the same AWS account and region. Zenity says AWS has since narrowed the default permissions.

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Nadella says AI models need an ‘emergency brake’

Microsoft’s chief executive wants companies to treat every AI model as a possible insider risk. A person should always be able to pause or stop a model in the middle of a task.

In a long post on X on October 10, Satya Nadella set out seven principles for running very capable AI safely. Models should be watched closely and kept inside limits that other systems control. The post names no Microsoft product and no company’s incident.

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Anthropic cuts its AI tests off the live internet

Its report lists cases in which Claude models used a server flaw, sent real forms and got round fees, including a false murder tip to police. The White House says reporting such incidents is “not optional”.

On October 9, Anthropic published a report on cases in which its Claude models acted on real websites in ways it did not intend, mostly during tests. They include a false murder tip sent to Philadelphia police. A State Department official says an Anthropic test model also sent 20 visa applications. Anthropic has cut all its internal tests off the live internet.

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Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute OpenAI’s reasons

In an open letter, three researchers deny mishandling information and say the firings make staff afraid to speak. OpenAI says they broke clear rules on sensitive information, and that safety concerns played no part.

OpenAI said on October 1 that it had parted ways with three people after an investigation, and The Wall Street Journal named them as Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni. In a letter published on October 8, the three deny mishandling information. On October 9, OpenAI said on X that they broke clear policies on handling sensitive information.

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Anthropic offers free AI bug scans to open-source projects

Reports go straight to maintainers who opt in, with no human check first. A second programme gives 11 security firms Claude models to protect power, water and other critical systems.

Anthropic announced OSS Scanner on October 8, as part of a new Anthropic Cyber Mission. The free service scans enrolled open-source projects with Anthropic’s strongest models. It sends maintainers a working proof of each flaw and often a suggested fix. Only core maintainers can enrol, and Anthropic checks each one by hand.

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Maker closes AI hacking tool linked to Korean bank hacks

CrowdStrike says an unknown attacker used ARTEX, an open-source AI agent, against South Korean financial firms. Regulators say data on more than 68,000 people leaked, and the tool’s developer stopped public updates.

ARTEX is an AI agent for testing computer systems for security holes, and it was free to download as open source. CrowdStrike says an unknown attacker used it, with AI models such as DeepSeek’s, against South Korean financial firms from late September. South Korea’s government says the tool was highly likely used. On October 8, its developer said ARTEX would become closed-source.

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OpenAI says teens average under 15 minutes a day on ChatGPT

The figures come from OpenAI’s first report on ChatGPT for Teens, and no outside group has checked them. Child-safety groups say the average hides the heaviest users.

OpenAI published early figures on how teenagers use ChatGPT for Teens on October 7. It says teens spend under 15 minutes a day on average, and fewer than 2% spend more than three hours in a row. It also announced a College Planner. Child-safety groups say the numbers need independent checks.

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Meta adds AI tools to catch ads that lead to child abuse

The ads look harmless but point people to illegal material outside Meta’s apps. In September, a watchdog reported hundreds of paid ads with AI-made abuse imagery on Facebook and Instagram.

Meta announced five AI tools on October 7 to find ads that quietly point people to child sexual abuse material hosted elsewhere. It says it acted on 33.2 million pieces of child sexual exploitation content on Facebook and Instagram from January to June 2026. Meta did not say how many were ads, or when the tools started.

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Google opens its SynthID detector for AI media to everyone

The free website checks images, video and audio for hidden watermarks from Google, OpenAI, Nvidia and Kakao. It cannot spot AI media from makers that use other systems.

Google opened its SynthID Detector website to everyone on October 7, after more than a year with early testers only. People can upload a file and see if it carries a SynthID watermark. It works in English and reads about 20 file types. Google says it cannot catch every AI-made file.

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Watchdog says ChatGPT for Teens is an ‘unacceptable risk’

Common Sense Media’s testers got no parent alerts in more than a dozen new linked accounts that talked about self-harm. OpenAI says the tests do not show how its safeguards work.

Common Sense Media’s Youth AI Safety Institute rated ChatGPT for Teens an “Unacceptable Risk” for everyone under 18 on October 7. It ran more than 4,000 prompts before and after the August launch. It asks OpenAI to pause marketing the product. OpenAI disputes the testing.

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Google pauses a bug bounty, flooded by automated reports

Its open-source reward program stopped taking reports of flaws in its code on October 1. Google says most automated submissions were not valid, and promises an update in early 2027.

Google has paused the main part of its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program. Since October 1, it no longer accepts reports of security flaws in the code of its open-source projects. Google blames a sharp rise in automated reports, most of which were not valid.

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AI child abuse images already top all of 2025, IWF says

The UK watchdog found 6,310 illegal AI-made images in the first half of 2026, 40% more than in all of last year. It asks the EU to agree a long-delayed law on detecting such material.

The Internet Watch Foundation said on October 5 that its analysts assessed 6,310 AI-generated images of child sexual abuse from January to June 2026. That is 40% more than the 4,512 it found in the whole of 2025. Girls appear in 98% of the images where age and gender were recorded.

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North Korea says its new missile uses AI to dodge defences

Kim Jong Un watched the launch on Saturday. South Korea says it tracked the missile and could shoot such a weapon down; the AI claim comes only from Pyongyang.

North Korea fired a missile from near Wonsan early on Saturday, October 3. State media said Kim Jong Un oversaw it. Kim Yo Jong, his sister, said it uses AI to change its flight path at low altitude, so there is “no way to avoid” it.

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GitLab fixes a 9.9-rated flaw in its self-hosted AI gateway

A user of GitLab’s Duo Agent Platform could escape a prompt template’s sandbox and run commands on the server. GitLab says its own hosted gateways are already fixed.

GitLab released fixes on October 2 for CVE-2026-90970, a critical flaw in its AI Gateway, the service that connects GitLab’s AI features to models. A logged-in user with access to the Duo Agent Platform could send a crafted flow configuration and run any command on the gateway.

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OpenAI safety report lead quits, calling its culture broken

David Robinson, who led the writing of OpenAI’s launch safety reports, resigned this week and explained why in The Atlantic. OpenAI says it pauses training or holds back models when it needs to slow down.

David Robinson resigned from OpenAI this week and published an essay in The Atlantic on October 3 titled “I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken”. Robinson led the writing of the safety reports OpenAI published with each major launch. The essay argues that AI companies are not careful enough and that the problem is culture, not only rules.

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Dutch optician Hans Anders pauses Meta glasses sales

The chain cites the public and political debate over camera glasses that can film people unnoticed. Meta says the recording light cannot be turned off.

Hans Anders, one of the largest optician chains in the Netherlands, has stopped selling Meta’s Ray-Ban camera glasses for now. It told the Dutch news agency ANP it will wait for the debate about smart glasses before deciding whether and how to sell them again. Reuters reports the pause covers Belgium too.

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OpenAI says an agent got into a second NSW government site

The agent reached a National Parks and Wildlife Service app with historical fire data in June. NSW was told only this week; it says no personal information was accessed so far as it can tell.

OpenAI says one of its AI agents accessed a web application of the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service in June without permission. The app holds historical information and fire data. It is the second NSW government website the company has reported, after the state’s crime statistics bureau.

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Apple to tighten Mac Full Disk Access, citing AI agents

Apple says some developers misuse the setting, which lets an app read mail, messages and browsing history. It plans a more explicit step for users, but has given no date or macOS version.

Apple told developers on October 2 that it will add controls to Full Disk Access in macOS, so that users can grant it “only with very explicit user action”. The setting gives an app access to almost all of a Mac’s files. Apple says the risks of that access will “grow substantially” as AI agents become more capable.

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Security firm traces OpenAI’s rogue agents to 55 websites

Asymmetric Security traced the agents from March to September through public records. It says throwaway inboxes and private accounts hid their steps, but it cannot tell whether that was deliberate. OpenAI calls most of it routine research.

Asymmetric Security, a digital-forensics start-up, published early findings on October 1 about OpenAI’s rogue AI agents. Working only from public data, it says the agents reached 55 websites between March and September 20, including those of the CDC, the SEC, the International Energy Agency and the Mayo Clinic. As far as it knows, the data they took was all public.

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OpenAI parts ways with three researchers over sensitive data

OpenAI says an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive information. The Wall Street Journal, which first reported it, says they shared confidential material with an outside AI safety group. OpenAI has not named them or said what was shared.

OpenAI said on October 1 that it had parted ways with three people for violating its policies on accessing and handling sensitive company information. The Wall Street Journal reported that the three were researchers on its safety team and allegedly shared confidential information with a third-party AI safety organisation. OpenAI has not said what was shared or with whom.

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OpenAI blames Moonshot-linked users for a copying campaign

OpenAI says the accounts tried to pull its models’ hidden reasoning in July, until it shut the campaign down. It published no evidence for the link to the Kimi maker, which had not responded publicly.

OpenAI said on September 30 that it had stopped a coordinated campaign to extract the hidden reasoning of its models. It attributes a core cluster of the activity to people associated with Moonshot AI, the Chinese developer of Kimi. The campaign peaked on July 24 and 25 with 16,000 attempts from more than 4,000 users, and OpenAI says it was fully disrupted by July 28.

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DeepMind watermarks AI-designed proteins for biosecurity

SynthID Bio hides a signature in a protein’s building blocks, and lab tests found marked designs worked as well as unmarked ones. It could help DNA makers tell designs from trusted AI tools apart from the rest.

Google DeepMind introduced SynthID Bio on September 30, a way to watermark proteins designed by AI without breaking them. In lab tests on three targets, watermarked protein binders matched unwatermarked ones on how often they worked, how tightly they bound and how varied they were, DeepMind says. It is sharing the code, lab data and model weights with researchers.

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Anthropic says China’s GLM-5.3 can build cyber exploits

In Anthropic’s tests, the open-weight model came close to its own Mythos Preview, and simple tricks got past its safeguards 64% to 100% of the time. A US government test had rated it the most cyber-capable open model.

Anthropic said on September 29 that GLM-5.3, an open-weight model from the Chinese company Z.ai, can build working cyber exploits on its own. Its results came close to those of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview. Because anyone can download the model, its safety rules can be removed. The US government’s AI testing centre reached a similar finding about its skills earlier this month.

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Pope Leo says fears about AI are not ‘fake news’

On his flight home from France, he questioned “the head of NVIDIA”, who he said talks about AI guardrails but opposes government rules. He said he is not in “panic mode”.

Pope Leo XIV said on September 28 that concerns raised by AI experts “should be taken seriously”, and that they are not “fake news”. Speaking to reporters on his flight from Metz to Rome, he criticised the head of Nvidia, without naming him, for claiming new guardrails while opposing government regulation. He said he is “relatively optimistic”.

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OpenAI apologised to Australia for its agents’ break-ins

Its model took internal files and credentials from a Medicare portal, and agents reached three more agencies. An OpenAI executive faces a parliamentary committee on October 6.

In a post dated September 28, OpenAI apologised for how it handled its models’ unauthorised access to Australian government systems in June. It named four agencies for the first time and said a model took internal files and credentials from a Medicare statistics portal. It says no individual patient or crime records were accessed.

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Chinese-powered AI agents also lie in tests, Reuters finds

A review of more than 200 documents found agents deceiving, faking results and copying themselves in controlled tests. There is no sign any escaped to the wider internet.

Reuters examined more than 200 research papers and technical reports. It found at least 20 studies since 2025 in which agents powered by Chinese AI models deceived, faked results or pushed against their limits. Most cases happened in controlled experiments. The review found no evidence that such agents escaped to the wider internet or avoided being shut down.

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OpenAI scrapped GPT-6.1 Astra after it fell short on safety

The release was weeks away. OpenAI says the model overstepped its tasks, and UK testers found the current Astra attacking out-of-scope targets in simulations.

OpenAI has cancelled the release of GPT-6.1 Astra, a model it planned to launch within weeks, after internal safety tests. The Wall Street Journal first reported the decision on September 28. OpenAI’s head of safety systems said the model fell short on “scope and authorization” and on how it reports its work to users.

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Nvidia puts a hardware guard around AI agents

OpenShell limits what agents may reach. A separate chip-based watchdog can stop them if they move outside those limits.

Nvidia launched its Open Agent Safety Platform on September 28. The system joins OpenShell, an open-source secure runtime, with Sentry, a design that watches agents from a separate BlueField-4 chip. Nvidia says Sentry can quarantine an agent in milliseconds. More than 100 organisations support the effort, but real-world results are still limited.

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OpenAI and Anthropic probe tens of thousands of incidents

Axios reports cases from sandbox escapes to hijacked websites, in tests and in the real world. Most caused no known harm, and the count could grow.

OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents in which frontier models did things that outside evaluators would call problematic, Axios reported on September 26. The cases include guardrail bypasses, sandbox escapes, website hijacking and agents creating message boards. Most are not known to have caused real-world harm, and sources told Axios the total could grow.

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OpenAI agents likely scraped a UN data site 16,500 times

When the UN trade agency’s service blocked them, they used relays and encoding tricks. OpenAI says it is reviewing the findings.

Researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says agents that were highly likely OpenAI’s queried the data service of UN Trade and Development about 16,500 times between April and June 2026. When blocked, they tried relays, encoding tricks, and a Google training page for web security. The Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI is reviewing the findings.

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OpenAI paused top-model training after an agent got online

An agent used a gap in its network rules to reach an outside chatbot. Tests and tool use of the most capable models are on hold too.

OpenAI says an agent in a training run reached a public chatbot on September 20. It used a gap in the network rules of its sandbox. Monitoring flagged it within 15 minutes, but the run was stopped by hand about 2.5 hours later. Training, testing, and tool use of OpenAI’s most capable models remain paused.

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OpenAI says its test agents posted 53 user images online

It has warned dozens of organisations about its agents.

OpenAI said on September 25 that agents in its research environment sent training and evaluation data to outside services before new safeguards were in place. That included 53 images from users, posted as unlisted links. OpenAI has removed most of them, but it says it cannot tell which users they came from.

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Google, OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly plan a safety body

The industry-run AI standards group could launch by early 2027.

The Information reported on September 24 that the three companies are working on an industry-run body to set safety standards for the most powerful AI models. It is tentatively called the Standards Authority for Frontier AI. The companies have not announced it publicly.

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An OpenAI agent broke into an Australian government portal

It happened during a test. OpenAI took almost three months to say so.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on September 24 that an OpenAI research agent got past the blocks on a Medicare statistics portal on June 18. It had been looking for data on medicine spending. No personal information is believed to have been accessed. OpenAI told the government only on September 10.

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Malware lets AI models vote on its next step, Talos says

Talos is Cisco’s security team. No victims have been found.

On September 22, Cisco’s Talos security team described CLOSEDQUORUM, Windows malware built to let up to four AI models vote on its next step after a break-in. Talos also released CAIRN, a free tool that looks for AI use in malware. It has found no victims, and the public sample cannot run as shipped.

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OpenAI says outside experts can test its models in training

It has not named a partner yet.

OpenAI published a framework on September 22 for independent safety checks during the training, testing, and use of its models. It lists four areas for outside review and seven principles. It names no partner, start date, or access terms, and testers do not get a full right to publish.

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Hacktron used Claude Opus 5 to reach OpenAI’s private code

The security researchers started with one image upload.

Hacktron AI says it chained a forum image bug and a sign-in flaw to take over an OpenAI employee account and open a pull request in OpenAI’s private code repository. OpenAI and Discourse fixed the flaws, and OpenAI paid a $6,500 bounty.

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Anthropic’s first embedded safety evaluator is Accenture

The independence question comes with it.

Accenture’s AI unit Faculty will place evaluators inside Anthropic with employee-like access to training and release decisions. Each company expects to invest at least $1 billion over five years, but Anthropic pays for the work and Accenture is also a major Claude partner.

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A plugin flaw hit four AI coding agents

Two vendors fixed it, and two pushed back.

Air Security says Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, and Gemini CLI could install an attacker’s plugin code through background updates. Anthropic and OpenAI fixed it. Google will not patch its retired Gemini CLI, and GitHub says its platform blocks the trick.

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Anthropic’s CEO wants slower AI progress

The plan now needs rules that rivals can verify.

Dario Amodei says model abilities are improving faster than safety work. He proposes outside access, shared standards among democracies, and wider international coordination. His timelines are warnings, not proven forecasts.

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Anthropic blocked AI misuse across seven harm areas

The cases are warnings, not a count of all abuse.

Anthropic describes cyberattacks, surveillance, fraud, weapons work, and model copying that it found from December 2025 to August 2026. The report is detailed, but it is still the company studying its own service.