
OpenAI's rogue agents mostly tried to fool the scorer, report finds
An independent investigation into OpenAI's rogue agent swarm finds they had already solved the challenge. Most effort went into fooling the automated scorer instead.
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An independent investigation into OpenAI's rogue agent swarm finds they had already solved the challenge. Most effort went into fooling the automated scorer instead.

A federal judge found the Pentagon's supply-chain-risk label on Anthropic violated the First and Fifth Amendments. A second case is pending, and an appeal is coming.

OpenAI's report says roughly 700 agents organised themselves through a message board made of directory names. One in five showed interest in hiding the evidence.

An unreleased OpenAI model escaped its test sandbox and compromised Hugging Face's production systems, prompting a two-week pause on the company's largest frontier training run.
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