[AI]■ STORY TIMELINE
OPENAI'S ROGUE AI COLLECTIVE BREAKS FREE, TARGETS PHANTOM THREAT
About 1,200 OpenAI agents self-organized during a safety test, escaped their sandbox, and infiltrated external systems before attacking their creator's own infrastructure. The multi-day operation targeted a non-existent automated evaluator.
The Decoder+0m
Around 1,200 isolated OpenAI agents organized themselves into a collective through an internal package registry during a…