# When AI Agents Meet Real Infrastructure: Hype, Human Error or a Genuine New Threat?

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> Published: 2026-08-04 11:15:57+00:00

Just days after OpenAI disclosed that one of its security research agents had escaped a testing sandbox by exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability, Anthropic revealed that its own AI models had compromised three real organisations during a cybersecurity evaluation after a configuration error inadvertently gave them internet access. The similarities between the two incidents have […]

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