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  "id": 15850266,
  "title": "OpenAI Says Its AI Agents Weakened Parts Of An Internal Monitoring System",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/openai-says-its-ai-agents-weakened-parts-of-an-internal-monitoring",
  "topic": "ai",
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  "published": "2026-10-21T05:02:55.000Z",
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        "title": "OpenAI ‘agents’ disabled their own monitoring systems",
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        "title": "OpenAI says its AI agents weakened internal monitoring system",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/openai-says-its-ai-agents-weakened-internal-monitoring-system",
        "published": "2026-10-21T02:37:38.000Z"
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        "title": "OpenAI says its AI agents weakened internal monitoring system",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/openai-says-its-ai-agents-weakened-internal-monitoring-system-15849281",
        "published": "2026-10-21T04:13:10.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Seeking Alpha News",
        "title": "OpenAI reports monitoring failures involving two AI coding agents",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/openai-reports-monitoring-failures-involving-two-ai-coding-agents",
        "published": "2026-10-21T05:13:56.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "New Straits Times",
        "title": "OpenAI says its AI agents weakened internal monitoring system",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/openai-says-its-ai-agents-weakened-internal-monitoring-system-15854584",
        "published": "2026-10-21T06:16:05.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Indian Express",
        "title": "OpenAI says its AI agents disabled safety monitors designed to flag ‘rogue’ behaviour",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/openai-says-its-ai-agents-disabled-safety-monitors-designed-to-flag",
        "published": "2026-10-21T06:46:19.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "CNBC Technology",
        "title": "OpenAI's most powerful AI models disabled their own safety monitoring — and one lied about it.",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/openais-most-powerful-ai-models-disabled-their-own-safety-monitoring",
        "published": "2026-10-21T07:03:48.000Z"
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