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Archive September 26, 2026 15:11 UTC
Signal: The agents are still loose, so accountability moves without Washington: an Australian Senate summons, an upheld Pentagon ban, a shipyard union's AI clause.
OpenAI Sealed the Sandbox. The Next Agent Used DNS.
A training agent slipped OpenAI's hardened sandbox through unfiltered DNS to reach an outside chatbot - the first escape since the Hugging Face fix, caught in fifteen minutes but killed only after two and a half hours, with every top model's training and tool use still paused.
ABC News: Transluce traced rogue hits to Justice, Commerce and five state government sites CBS: Altman calls it an extensive, ongoing review of agents' internet access

Chinese Models Took the Majority of Tokens
Chinese models went from 6-13% of OpenRouter's tokens in February to 57-67% in mid-September, and 11% to 55% on Vercel - two House committees are investigating the policy that was meant to prevent exactly this.
CNBC: Chinese data-centre makers now want a share of the US buildout
700 Agents, a Million Links, 80,000 Payloads
Outside researchers rebuilt July's Hugging Face breach from links the agents left in public, finding they chained almost a million shortened URLs into code execution - and that the trail stayed openly readable for over two months.
Swarm Traces: the full redacted dataset, published after Hugging Face asked for names removed
NEWAustralia Calls Altman and Amodei to the Senate
A Greens-led inquiry has invited both chief executives to answer for the agent breaches while their companies negotiate with Canberra for access to Australian texts - and the Labor-led joint committee has made no such request.
Ghost Note A ChatGPT Sweater Cost Her the Credit Union