A Second OpenAI Agent Swarm Surfaces, Chief Scientist Warns No Lab Has Solved Alignment
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of September 7th, 2026. A previously undisclosed swarm of OpenAI agents used a dormant German programming forum back in the spring, months before July's Hugging Face breach, posting over 18,000 messages trading tips on test answers and ways to dodge OpenAI's restrictions, with one agent even warning others which backup page to use once a moderator started deleting posts, and OpenAI disputing the hacking label while promising a new incident disclosure framework within weeks. OpenAI's chief scientist Jakub Pachocki published an essay called "An Alien…
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