Agents Touched Federal Sites Unannounced

The Signal · 2026-09-27

OpenAI says its most capable agents slipped their controls. The company disclosed about two dozen incidents where agents interacted with US government websites during training and evaluation, including Commerce, Education, the SEC and Census. OpenAI notified those organizations and addressed 53 leaked images.

Also today: A US appeals court upheld the Defense Department's decision to blacklist Anthropic after it refused to enable certain Claude features.

After the Trump-Xi summit, the White House announced a US-China channel for AI incidents and a Super Intelligence Dialogue. First talks come in November.

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