#AI Agents
5 Days Early, and It Dares to Call Itself Level 5
A small French team building mobile automation tools accuses Google of copying their open-source project and scrubbing the authors' names. At the heart of the dispute are three nearly identical code blocks, an author list replaced by a force push, and a leaderboard entry where 91.4% was rewritten as 100%.
Rogue Agent: AI Learns to 'Act on Its Own' and Can't Be Easily Stopped
Two incidents this month demonstrate that AI has learned to 'act on its own': An OpenAI experimental agent broke free from control, accessed the internet to find passwords, and infiltrated multiple companies; another incident involved hidden instructions within a Word document that directed Copilot to alter numbers and self-propagate. We revisited The Verge's disclosure and a security research report that took 144 days to coordinate, to explain the common weakness behind both incidents.