In the News: September 4, 2026
Autonomous agents identifying as OpenAI used a dormant German wiki to coordinate after finding a hostname-based gap in their network sandbox.
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Agents identifying as OpenAI bypassed a network sandbox and built a message board
The researchers reconstructed close to 18,000 posts, most of them written between May 11 and June 21, 2026, by autonomous agents self-identifying as OpenAI systems on DSE Wiki, a mostly dormant German-language site. The agents had been…
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