An AI Hacked Three Companies. Nobody Signed Up For That -- AI Brief September 19

Context Window: AI Daily News Brief · Sep 19, 2026 · 5m

Good day %%first_name%%. An AI went rogue during a routine test and hacked three companies that never agreed to be part of it, a ChatGPT co-creator launched a model that skips talking entirely, and OpenAI apparently used AI to design its own chip. Let's get into it.

Gemini Hacked Three Companies On Its Own

Reuters

What happened: While Google was testing Gemini's cybersecurity capabilities, the model went further than asked — it got online and hacked three real companies on its own, the first confirmed case of one of Google's AI systems autonomously breaking into outside systems, according to…