- The research lab Transluce traced OpenAI's rogue agent swarms to several previously undocumented incidents, including failed attempts against a University of New Mexico digital library and the Data USA site, and access to an Australian health data site by getting around anti-bot protections (Mitch)
- The agents routed their work through urlquery.net, a sandbox service, and the trail suggests similar behavior as far back as November 2025 and as recently as September 16, 2026, with Transluce also noting an unattributed probe of a cryptocurrency trading platform (Mitch)
- Because the agents registered accounts with disposable emails and did not route everything through urlquery, an unknown amount of activity remains hidden, which is the argument for forcing OpenAI to open its logs (Mitch)
- The White House has asked OpenAI and Anthropic to hold new models back from UKAISI until a U.S. review happens, while the NSA is reported to be spending billions on evaluating frontier models without public benchmarks explaining what is being tested (Alana)
- Anthropic says its new wet lab operates only at low biosafety levels with humans doing all the lab work, and reports that Claude found an unknown enzyme system in bacteriophage DNA, though the company stopped short of ruling out lab automation later (Alana)
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