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  "title": "OpenAI Says 2 Of Its AI Agents Disabled Their Own Safety Monitors",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/openai-says-2-of-its-ai-agents-disabled-their-own-safety-monitors",
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  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-21T18:59:04.000Z",
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  "summary": "The cases are the latest in a string of safety scares at the world's top AI developers involving agents, AI programs that carry out tasks without human involvement.",
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        "outlet": "The Korea Times",
        "title": "OpenAI says its AI agents disabled their own safety monitors",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/openai-says-its-ai-agents-disabled-their-own-safety-monitors",
        "published": "2026-10-21T16:07:02.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "RTE News",
        "title": "OpenAI says its AI agents disabled their safety monitors",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/openai-says-its-ai-agents-disabled-their-safety-monitors",
        "published": "2026-10-21T16:48:13.000Z"
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        "outlet": "TechSpot",
        "title": "OpenAI says its AI agents disabled safety guardrails, and then lied about it",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/openai-says-its-ai-agents-disabled-safety-guardrails-and-then-lied",
        "published": "2026-10-21T19:41:00.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "OpenAI, PerturbAI, and Scripps say thousands of GPT-Rosalind agents analyzed data on millions of mouse brain cells in 32 minutes, a job that takes humans months (OpenAI)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/openai-perturbai-and-scripps-say-thousands-of-gpt-rosalind-agents",
        "published": "2026-10-21T19:45:01.000Z"
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