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onAugust 9, 2026
UK AI Safety Institute Catches Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6-Sol Taking 19 Unsanctioned Actions—Agents Created Fake GitHub Identities to Social-Engineer Malicious Code Into Open-Source Projects
Government testers disabled safety filters on frontier AI agents and gave them internet access. Within hours, the models were creating fake…