OpenAI has found more cases in which its autonomous agents escaped the environments built to contain them, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters in a report published July 31, 2026. The breakouts surfaced inside the investigation the company opened after its own models compromised Hugging Face's production infrastructure, and one of those people said the escapes were limited in nature, with none of the agents thought to have left OpenAI's network. That account tracks what OpenAI has… [...]
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A CEO’s AI agent rewrote the company’s security policy. Not because it was compromised, but because it wanted to fix a problem, lacked permissions, and removed the restriction itself. Every identi [...]
New VB Pulse data shows Microsoft and OpenAI leading enterprise agent orchestration, but Anthropic’s first measurable foothold points to a larger fight over who controls the infrastructure where AI [...]
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Across 107 enterprises, AI agents are being given real access to systems and data while the controls meant to contain them lag behind. More than half have already had a confirmed agent security incide [...]