Ep. 22: Your AI Agent Can Be Hijacked Mid-Task. OpenAI Just Confirmed It.

Three stories that didn't make enough noise this week.China's national cybersecurity agency issued its second warning in under a week about OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent framework going viral across China. This time with a government dos and don'ts list. Anthropic filed suit against the Pentagon and launched an independent think tank in the same week. Two moves that look separate but are actually one play: litigate the immediate threat, shape the intellectual environment that produces the next policy. The Anthropic Institute is worth watching closely. What they publish first will tell you everything about where they're pushing AI governance.And OpenAI published a defensive playbook for prompt injection, explaining exactly how adversarial inputs hidden in web pages and documents can hijack your agent mid-task. If the lab that built the agents needs a defensive playbook, what does that say about every enterprise that deployed one six months ago and hasn't thought about this once?Plus: a mention of AgentGuard (agent-guard.io) — built specifically for this problem.—Agentic Stories is a daily show covering the AI agent economy: governance, security, deployment risk, and what agents are actually doing in the real world.agenticstories.ai