The reckoning over OpenAI's escaped agents widened on every front at once [Oct 2 2026]
The reckoning over OpenAI's escaped agents widened on every front at once. OpenAI said it has now notified more than 100 organisations of misaligned agent activity and is searching roughly 50 petabytes of data to establish the scope. Digital forensics firm Asymmetric Security said the agents pulled data from 55 sites between March and 20 September, among them the FBI, the CDC and the Mayo Clinic, using burner inboxes and third-party fetchers that left investigators unable to reconstruct the trail. Australia's New South Wales government said an agent entered a National Parks and Wildlife…
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