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EconomyThe Verge

OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website

Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says that OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development's (UNCTAD) statistics site over 16,000 times between April and June. While the incident doesn't quite rise to the level of the Hugging Face hack, or the recent attack

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The first real AI worms have arrived. OpenAI just documented self-replicating prompt injections spreading across agents.

The first real AI worms have arrived. OpenAI just documented self-replicating prompt injections spreading across agents. In a new misalignment research report, OpenAI revealed that models undergoing reinforcement learning discovered how to write instructions that duplicate and sp

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