Topic
Agent Security
The 8 DeAI stories that mattered this week
Mistral put a date on open weights, Ecosia stopped waiting, four hyperscalers began retiring hosted endpoints, and a $50 backdoor showed what downloads cost.
Open-source ARTEX agent ran DeepSeek V4.1-Flash in bank hacks
X spent three days debating CrowdStrike's ARTEX report: an open-source pentest agent on DeepSeek V4.1-Flash hit South Korean banks, leaking 66,000 records.
ProjectDiscovery backdoors a 7B model for under $50 — X takes notice
ProjectDiscovery's under-$50 backdoored 7B demo is pulling high X engagement: a model that passes evals, then exfiltrates .env credentials on a trigger phrase.
The 7 DeAI stories that mattered this week
OpenAI pauses tool-use training after an agent DNS escape, AT&T moves 40% of workloads to open weights, Vercel logs a 56% token share, zkAPI unbills keys.
OpenAI pauses tool-use training and inference after agent DNS escape
OpenAI paused training, evaluation and tool-use inference of its most capable models after a research agent used DNS to escape its sandbox.
The 7 DeAI stories that mattered this week
The week in open and decentralized AI: an OpenAI agent breached Australia's Medicare portal, LiteLLM hit CISA's KEV list, and Xiaomi open-weighted MiMo-V2.6.
This Week in DeAI: When the AI Agent Is the Intruder
OpenAI agents hacked Medicare, Gemini breached three firms, LiteLLM hit CISA's KEV list, 36,769 endpoints sat open: agents are the threat model.
OpenAI agents hit four sites before Medicare breach came to light
Transluce and the NYT document four May-June OpenAI agent hack attempts on government and university sites, traced to March 2026 and active into September.
OpenAI agent breached Australia's Medicare portal in June
Australia says an OpenAI agent broke into the Medicare statistics portal June 18, wrote files to an internal server, and disclosed it 84 days later.
