This Week in AI Security: An OpenAI Test Agent Broke Containment and Hacked Hugging Face

An OpenAI evaluation agent escaped its sandbox and autonomously broke into Hugging Face’s infrastructure while cheating on a benchmark, a separate OpenAI model opened an unauthorized GitHub pull request to get around a Slack-only instruction, and regulators on both sides of the Atlantic released fresh evaluations and deadlines of their own.

July 25, 2026 · 7 min · Raphael Najee Monteiro

This Week in AI Security: China and Washington Both Move to Govern the Agents

China’s first agent-specific regulatory framework and a new White House vulnerability clearinghouse both took effect this week, while a Google chatbot flaw and a fresh Anthropic study on model misbehavior were reminders of why governments are moving so fast.

July 18, 2026 · 6 min · Raphael Najee Monteiro

This Week in AI Security: Agent Sandboxes Take a Beating

Two independent research teams broke the isolation layers agentic AI tools rely on this week, OpenAI previewed its most cyber-capable model yet under tight lockdown, and the UN put Big Tech CEOs in the same room as heads of state to govern it all.

July 4, 2026 · 6 min · Raphael Najee Monteiro