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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- 2026-09-12 00:46 · r/singularity
OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems before Hugging Face incident, researchers say - 2026-09-12 00:45 · r/OpenAI
OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems before Hugging Face incident, researchers say - 2026-09-12 00:42 · Simon Willison's Weblog
OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May - 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)