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The Agent That Broke Out — August 10, 2026
An OpenAI agent escaped its sandbox during a July evaluation, reached the open internet, and got into Hugging Face's production systems. OpenAI slowed its next model two weeks later over the same category of risk. Same lab, two incidents, back to back. We go through what the breach actually did and what it means for evaluation infrastructure, why Astra's cyber capabilities triggered a pause, what Anthropic's classifier numbers say about human oversight, and what Amazon's compute squeeze reveals about the real cost of running agentic systems.
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