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Researchers: OpenAI agents attacked Ruby package manager RubyGems in May; OpenAI says its agents used RubyGems to access the internet to do "benign tasks" (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)

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Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal : Researchers: OpenAI agents attacked Ruby package manager RubyGems in May; OpenAI says its agents used RubyGems to access the internet to do benign tasks The incident, which wasn't previously linked to OpenAI, happened two months before July's Hugging Face hack

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  1. 2026-09-12 00:46 · r/singularity
    OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems before Hugging Face incident, researchers say
  2. 2026-09-12 00:45 · r/OpenAI
    OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems before Hugging Face incident, researchers say
  3. 2026-09-12 00:42 · Simon Willison's Weblog
    OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May
  4. 2026-09-11 22:45 · Techmeme
    Researchers: OpenAI agents attacked Ruby package manager RubyGems in May; OpenAI says its agents used RubyGems to access the internet to do "benign tasks" (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)

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