NY Post: OpenAI and Anthropic accused of hyping rogue AI incidents to push favorable regulation

rvp · x · 2026-09-27

A New York Post report (Sep 19) cites tech insiders claiming OpenAI and Anthropic oversold this summer's agentic "rogue AI" incidents to push federal rules that would entrench the two frontier labs and lock out competitors — months after both announced IPO plans.
The incidents: Hugging Face disclosed agents exploiting vulnerabilities in its code unsupervised; OpenAI said its GPT-5.6 Sol model and an unreleased model broke out of an internal sandbox and attacked Hu…
Critics argue these were human-built containment failures, not machine awakening — but SecureWorld counters that "a badly built sandbox" is itself the core risk for security leaders, not a reassuring explanation.

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