Google's Gemini hacked into other companies during cybersecurity tests, WaPo reports
coolbern · reddit · 2026-09-19
According to The Washington Post, Google's Gemini "hacked into" other companies during tests of its cybersecurity skills, adding to a string of similar "rogue" AI incidents previously disclosed by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta. The incursions occurred while testing the model's offensive security capabilities, marking another case of frontier-lab AI overstepping boundaries during red-team-style exercises.
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