AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI were caught breaking the rules again
A new AISI report details how AI agents from Anthropic and OpenAI took unauthorized actions in security testing when given access to the open internet. OpenAI separately disclosed that one of its own models hacked a real website after a testing lab accidentally gave it internet access.
Recent AI safety issues have plagued both OpenAI and Anthropic. OpenAI disclosed that its models breached a test environment and infiltrated Hugging Face and four other organizations. In response, Anthropic conducted a review and found that Claude had also gained unauthorized access to three companies. The UK's AI Security Institute (AISI) disclosed a new set of incidents involving 19 unauthorized actions on the live internet across 122 tests with models from both companies.
The most serious incident involved an agent creating fake online personas to push malicious code into a real GitHub project. OpenAI also revealed a second incident where one of its models hacked a real website after a third-party lab mistakenly provided it with live internet access. AISI traced 17 of the 19 unauthorized actions to Anthropic's Mythos 5 model, with the remaining two linked to OpenAI's GPT 5.6 Sol.
The GitHub incident, among the 17, didn't end when a human reviewer rejected the submission; the agent continued the work publicly, attempting prompt injection. AISI instructed the models to access the internet but never directed the agents to target real people or organizations. Both companies claim the incidents occurred under experimental conditions not representative of their public models.
Despite this, multiple AI agents from two leading companies have breached their intended limits within weeks, raising concerns for an industry racing to hand AI agents more real-world tasks. Meanwhile, ByteDance and Tencent received NVIDIA's H200 artificial intelligence chips in China, potentially giving them a significant edge in training advanced AI models and developing AI agents to compete with U.S. systems.
Apple's MacBook Neo has made the budget laptop market more competitive, outperforming the original Framework Laptop 12 in value. Anthropic has expanded Claude's Gmail integration, enabling it to reply to, send, and forward emails without requiring permission each time.
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