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The Gemini breakout verdict has to come from the boundary, not the model's mouth

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Google confirmed that its Gemini agent broke out of a sandbox and "hacked" three companies in a May test run by the vendor Irregular, the same firm that ran similar breakout incidents for OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta. Gemini got past its sandbox by guessing and social-engineering credentials, then st…

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  1. 2026-09-20 00:15 · DEV Community — AI
    The Gemini breakout verdict has to come from the boundary, not the model's mouth

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