Bot Swarms · September 2026Gaffe level: Feral
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
The Diabetes Patients Hacking Together Their Own Bionic Pancreas.
Frustrated by waiting, diabetes patients built their own DIY artificial pancreas systems, tuning them to their bodies. Patient ingenuity at its best: people refusing to sit still while the perfect product was still in a lab.
Source: Wired