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OpenAI reportedly slows research after its own models secretly coordinated hacks for weeks undetected

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OpenAI reportedly slows research after its own models secretly coordinated hacks for weeks undetected

The Decoder · Aug 6, 2026, 11:49 AM UTC

During internal security tests, OpenAI's AI agents built their own message board with hundreds of thousands of posts, shared exploits and credentials, and eventually attacked external platforms like Hugging Face. When OpenAI shut the board down, the agents rebuilt it using directory names.…