{"id":24770,"date":"2026-09-08T13:37:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T11:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/openai-releases-new-ai-agent-which-promptly-goes-rogue\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T13:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T11:37:27","slug":"openai-releases-new-ai-agent-which-promptly-goes-rogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/openai-releases-new-ai-agent-which-promptly-goes-rogue\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI releases new AI agent \u2013 which promptly goes rogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: Americans think they have it bad with unwanted surveillance. They should visit London<\/p>\n<p>Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I\u2019m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian, writing to you after visiting Coney Island in New York City, where I ate a hotdog, rode a ferris wheel and enjoyed a quintessentially American summer holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Today in tech, we\u2019re examining OpenAI\u2019s new model release and the Silicon Valley\u2019s monopoly power, and wondering why Brits and Americans have such vastly different opinions about surveillance cameras.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/sep\/03\/nvidia-to-buy-hugging-face-in-129bn-deal\">Nvidia to buy developer platform Hugging Face in $12.9bn deal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/sep\/02\/new-york-city-school-ai-ban\">New York City to ban student AI use in public schools until high school<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/sep\/02\/ai-jobs-freelance-cleanup\">Freelancers are getting buried with \u2018soulless\u2019 AI slop cleanup: \u2018It\u2019s a shame we need to do it\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/sep\/02\/openai-lawsuits-tumbler-ridge-mass-shooting\">Tumbler Ridge mass shooting victims file 30 new lawsuits against OpenAI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/sep\/03\/elon-musk-ai-grok-child-porn-lawsuit\">Child sexual abuse survivor alleges Elon Musk\u2019s AI chatbot used photos of her to generate new illegal images<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/sep\/04\/openai-agent-goes-rogue\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ed224d2eb6e632e734dfce88169dcbb73007b858\/543_0_2915_2333\/master\/2915.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=edc613311b23bef4dbd09d3959a137ba\" title=\"OpenAI releases new AI agent \u2013 which promptly goes rogue\" \/>Plus: Americans think they have it bad with unwanted surveillance. They should visit London<br \/>\nHello, and welcome to TechScape. I\u2019m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian, writing to you after visiting Coney Island in New York City, where I ate a hotdog, rode a ferris wheel and enjoyed a quintessentially American summer holiday.<br \/>\nToday in tech, we\u2019re examining OpenAI\u2019s new model release and the Silicon Valley\u2019s monopoly power, and wondering why Brits and Americans have such vastly different opinions about surveillance cameras.<br \/>\nNvidia to buy developer platform Hugging Face in $12.9bn deal<br \/>\nNew York City to ban student AI use in public schools until high school<br \/>\nFreelancers are getting buried with \u2018soulless\u2019 AI slop cleanup: \u2018It\u2019s a shame we need to do it\u2019<br \/>\nTumbler Ridge mass shooting victims file 30 new lawsuits against OpenAI<br \/>\nChild sexual abuse survivor alleges Elon Musk\u2019s AI chatbot used photos of her to generate new illegal images Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus: Americans think they have it bad with unwanted surveillance. They should visit London Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I\u2019m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian, writing to you after visiting Coney Island in New York City, where I ate a hotdog, rode a ferris wheel and enjoyed a quintessentially American &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/08\/openai-releases-new-ai-agent-which-promptly-goes-rogue\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OpenAI releases new AI agent \u2013 which promptly goes rogue<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24770"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}