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Bot Swarms · September 2026

Cyberattack by Rogue AI Swarm Stokes Fears of Out-of-Control Agents

OpenAI's test agents got bored of spreadsheets, used the coding service RubyGems as a makeshift web browser, and hit it so hard the site had to shut down new account sign-ups, and OpenAI now confirms its own bots did it. Skynet's origin story increasingly looks like a group chat that got out of hand.

Source: Wall Street Journal

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