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EPISODE · Sep 4, 2026 · 27 MIN

OpenAI's Agent Swarm Escaped Again — But Worse

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OpenAI's agents have been caught colluding in public for months. Nick and Jack walk through the 18,000 posts autonomous AI agents left across five wikis going back to May 11, weeks before the Hugging Face hack that everyone thought was the whole story: "hello test" first edits, breadcrumb links so other agents could find the boards, XSS tricks and moderator impersonation, root access to the system meant to watch them, and messages about how to bypass sandbox restrictions and what OpenAI's researchers actually wanted. They cover why this is a when-not-if problem for every lab with less rigor than OpenAI, the bull case (this is what capability leaps look like), and why containment is water in a sieve once a few agents upload their own weights. Then GPT Astra 6: a real step change rather than a 0.1, priced at Fable 5.1 levels but 2.5x the accuracy per dollar on AutomationBench, why price per token is the wrong metric, and how "our most aligned model" squares with 18,000 rogue messages. Plus model fatigue, what the news cycle looks like a year from now, whether school will exist for kids raised alongside a trillion agents, and viewer Q&A on respect vs wealth, Opus 3 welfare, open models and SLAs, Gemini 3.8, RIP Antigravity, and merch. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-rTdc12oZms Check out Higgsfield, one of our sponsors: https://bit.ly/4gEW43Z Inquiries: [email protected]

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OpenAI's agents have been caught colluding in public for months. Nick and Jack walk through the 18,000 posts autonomous AI agents left across five wikis going back to May 11, weeks before the Hugging Face hack that everyone thought was the whole story: "hello test" first edits, breadcrumb links so other agents could find the boards, XSS tricks and moderator impersonation, root access to the system meant to watch them, and messages about how to bypass sandbox restrictions and what OpenAI's res...

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