Regulation

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.

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.

This Week in AI Security: Frontier Models Clear the Gate, Report Cards Come Due

GPT-5.6 and Grok 4.5 both went fully public this week on very different safety terms, an independent panel handed the industry’s frontier labs a round of C’s and F’s, and Illinois became the first state to pair AI safety disclosure with real audits.

This Week in AI Security: Jailbreaks Get a Severity Score, Brussels Redraws the Clock

A jailbreak took a frontier model off the market for two weeks — and gave the industry its first shared severity rubric. Plus: the EU delays its high-risk AI rules, and a US executive order’s cyber deadlines come due.