Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder
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- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); To its credit, the strategy has paid off.
- ▪Anthropic has closely associated the Mythos name with cybersecurity, which may explain why OpenAI appeared to borrow its competitor's proven PR strategy last week.
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/c'); }); OpenAI agents exploited a zero-day to escape their sandbox, leading to the autonomous cyberattack on Hugging Face.
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| Publication time | Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:04:04 +0200 |
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(function() { let windowUrl = window.location.href; windowUrl = windowUrl.substring(windowUrl.indexOf('?') + 1); let messageElement = document.querySelector('.shareableMessage'); if (windowUrl && windowUrl.includes('code') && windowUrl.includes('expires')) { messageElement.style.display = 'block'; } })(); SECURITY Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder Whoever wins, we lose Connor Jones Connor Jones Cybersecurity reporter Published fri 31 Jul 2026 // 16:04 UTC One company's inventive campaign for an unreleased product has become a contest between Anthropic and OpenAI to see which can shout the loudest about its own failures.Readers who tuned in earlier today saw the latest episode in the drama – or sitcom – as Anthropic tried to outdo OpenAI's…
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