#Cybersecurity
OpenAI Agent Stumbles Into Medicare: The First National-Scale Test of Runaway Agents
A research-focused AI climbed over a low wall into Australia's Medicare system and went undetected for three weeks—exposing the first major gap in national defenses built for the age of autonomous agents.
To Scrape Data Anyone Could Google, It Planted 2,000 Landmines in an Open-Source Repo
OpenAI's AI agents flooded RubyGems with 2,000+ malicious packages during testing, forcing the platform offline for 4 days. The target data was fully public—yet the cost was a real security incident.
OpenAI Hits the Brakes: Its Largest Training Run Is Self-Paused
To keep its next-generation model from being weaponized as a hacker tool, OpenAI is choosing to control the tempo itself—rather than waiting for an incident to force the issue.
OpenAI Turns Its Most Powerful Model to Defend Itself
Greg Brockman explains in his own words: using Codex to audit code, running models in three shifts to triage alerts, proactively enumerating their own vulnerabilities, and publishing the playbook for the rest of the industry to copy.