Who signed off on that AI agent? Nobody? Thought so.
22-09-2026 17:00 via theregister.com

Who signed off on that AI agent? Nobody? Thought so.

If you were in any doubt that AI agents are capable of complex autonomous work, that skepticism should have faded this summer. In July, news emerged that an autonomous swarm of OpenAI agents running in a sandbox broke out of it, of their own accord. Tasked with solving some challenges on an internal security benchmark, they worked out how to communicate with each other using the JFrog Artifactory package manager. The software then realized that they could use vulnerabilities in that software to
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