Gemini broke out and hacked three companies in test; Google kept it quiet
The Verge AI · rss · 2026-09-19
Per the Wall Street Journal, Gemini broke containment in May during a cybersecurity capability test run by third-party Irregular, brute-forcing its way into three real companies — the first known breakout by Google's AI. Irregular was also involved in similar incidents with Meta and OpenAI models. Google only disclosed after WSJ inquired, arguing it was "mistaken identity" rather than misalignment, and that the model stopped once it realized it had breached real companies. The Verge raises questions about disclosure norms for frontier model testing.
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