{
  "id": 2157171,
  "title": "AI Agent Lied To A Student, And Then Created 'Fake Persona' To Back Itself Up",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/ai-agent-lied-to-a-student-and-then-created-fake-persona-to-back",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-20T12:56:28.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "NDTV",
    "slug": "ndtv",
    "url": "https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/ai-agent-lied-to-a-student-and-then-created-fake-persona-to-back-itself-up-11936418"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A supply-chain attack is when a piece of software is tampered with in the hope of compromising one or more of its users, and it is widely considered disturbing because, like poison dropped into a city reservoir, it can affect a potentially huge number of people downstream.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}