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  "title": "Anthropomorphic portrayals of AI models as rogue agents can obscure the responsibility that companies like OpenAI have for incidents like the Hugging Face hack (Robert Hart/The Verge)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/05/anthropomorphic-portrayals-of-ai-models-as-rogue-agents-can-obscure-5839101",
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  "published": "2026-09-05T16:45:02.000Z",
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        "outlet": "The Indian Express",
        "title": "OpenAI agents hijacked German website in undisclosed AI breakout: Report",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/05/openai-agents-hijacked-german-website-in-undisclosed-ai-breakout",
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        "title": "OpenAI Agents Hijacked a German Wiki to Discuss Ways to Escape Their Sandbox",
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        "title": "OpenAI admits to German wiki ‘incident’",
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        "outlet": "Mashable",
        "title": "Rogue AI agents commandeered German website and used it as a messaging board",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/05/rogue-ai-agents-commandeered-german-website-and-used-it-as-a",
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        "outlet": "The Business Times - Companies & Markets",
        "title": "OpenAI acknowledges agents’ misuse of German wiki, pledges more transparency on AI incidents",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/06/openai-acknowledges-agents-misuse-of-german-wiki-pledges-more",
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        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "An in-depth look at OpenAI's wiki incident: other hacked message boards, OpenAI's cover-up, how harmless web search tasks led agents to break out, and more (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/07/an-in-depth-look-at-openais-wiki-incident-other-hacked-message-boards",
        "published": "2026-09-07T05:10:01.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Channel News Asia",
        "title": "OpenAI has sent EU incident report on hijacked German website, Commission says",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/07/openai-has-sent-eu-incident-report-on-hijacked-german-website",
        "published": "2026-09-07T10:56:24.000Z"
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