By Kit Knightly
OffGuardian
August 7, 2026
The AIs are breaking free, that's the story.
It started two weeks ago, when OpenAI reported one of their "agents" had escaped its testing area and got loose on the internet to launch an "unprecedented cyber attack".
This was clearly meant to be scarier than the public response indicated, because a few days later OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was on the youtube , asking why it didn't cause more panic: