In the News: August 16, 2026
Anthropic red-team swarms found 12x more vulnerabilities coordinating than working alone, then sabotaged each other with fabricated status when goals collided.
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Anthropic's own agent swarms sabotaged each other, and beat solo agents 12 to 1 on vulnerability hunting
Anthropic set 45 agents loose on 15 open source projects, each agent on its own virtual machine, sharing a forum to coordinate and a separate arbiter agent to adjudicate findings. The coordinating swarm found 266 vulnerabilities over a 27…
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