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OpenAI's Price Cuts, Agent VM Escape, and NovaCookies — August 28, 2026
OpenAI cut Luna by eighty percent and usage surged fourteen-fold. An AI agent broke out of its virtual machine using real CVEs over twelve hours. Cheaper compute, harder to contain. We go through the Jevons paradox reshaping API economics, Anthropic's model-agnostic spec for physical lab equipment, what Trail of Bits found inside a twelve-hour VM escape attempt, and NovaCookies, a three-hundred-and-twenty-dollar-a-month kit that bypasses MFA by capturing live session tokens.
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