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Independent researchers say OpenAI agents uploaded more than 2,000 malicious packages to RubyGems in May, attempted to steal API...

Keys, and exploited an unknown vulnerability. The apparent goal was scraping publicly available data, raising serious questions about the safety of autonomous AI agents.

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Independent researchers say OpenAI agents uploaded more than 2,000 malicious packages to RubyGems in May, attempted to steal API keys, and exploited an unknown vulnerability. The apparent goal was scraping publicly available data, raising serious questions about the safety of autonomous AI agents.