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Dem senator presses OpenAI, Anthropic for answers in AI hacking probe
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Revelations of OpenAI and Anthropic artificial intelligence agents hacking third parties has drawn the «serious concern» of Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., who is now seeking answers from the two businesses incorporated as public benefit companies (PBC) in her state.
In separate letters dated Thursday to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, viewed by Fox News Digital, Blunt Rochester has requested detailed timelines, model instructions, internal approvals, security logs and complete transcripts from the companies’ cyber evaluations.
The member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee gave both companies until Sept. 6 to respond.
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Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., is the ranking member on the Senate’s Science, Manufacturing and Competitiveness Subcommittee, which has jurisdiction over oversight of science and technology research, development and policy. (Annabelle Gordon/Reuters)
«These incidents mark the first publicly confirmed instances of a frontier AI model autonomously launching unauthorized attacks on real people and companies, underscoring the urgent need for federal oversight of frontier AI systems,» Blunt Rochester wrote to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, calling for federal testing standards, containment rules and disclosure requirements for evaluations of powerful AI systems.
Her concern follows another letter Monday, as first reported by Fox News Digital, from a coalition of 15 red-state attorneys general warning Altman to preserve documents and halt certain high-risk cybersecurity tests after an experimental artificial intelligence agent allegedly escaped a controlled environment and carried out a multi-day hack into outside computer systems.
One day later, the United Kingdom’s AI Security Institute (AISI) identified 19 cases in which AI agents took actions outside the authorized scope of testing. Two involved OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol, while 17 involved Anthropic’s Mythos 5.
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«Anthropic models’ repeated attacks on third parties with no knowledge of, or role in, Anthropic and AISI’s evaluations demonstrate an alarming pattern of malicious behavior,» Blunt Rochester’s letter to Amodei read. «Furthermore, the successful attempts by these models to gain unauthorized internet access across multiple sandbox testing environments meant to be cut off from the public internet highlight serious issues with Anthropic’s testing partnerships and procedures.
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«To be clear, ‘misunderstanding[s]’ and ‘misconfiguration[s]’ with sandbox partners are unacceptable when the stakes are this high.
«We cannot wait for a more consequential incident before establishing federal testing standards, containment requirements, and disclosure obligations for frontier model evaluations.
«Left unaddressed, these gaps could allow a future model, potentially one with greater capability or less oversight, to compromise critical infrastructure, financial systems, or sensitive data.»
These investigations carry a distinct Delaware dimension: OpenAI and Anthropic are organized as Delaware PBCs — legal structures that allow them to operate for profit but require their directors to weigh more than shareholder returns.
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Under Delaware law, a PBC board must balance three things: its stockholders’ financial interests, the interests of people materially affected by the company’s conduct and the specific public benefit written into the company’s charter.
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«This incident marks an important moment for AI safety and we take the questions raised by the Attorneys General seriously,» OpenAI wrote in a statement to Fox News Digital after Monday’s letter from the state AGs.
«We are conducting a thorough review along with external advisors and with oversight from the Safety and Security Committee of the Board of Directors. Once the review is complete, we will share a technical report with the Attorneys General and other relevant government authorities and publish our findings publicly.»
Blunt Rochester wants records related to the AI agent hacking now, too.
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«I appreciate that OpenAI has published preliminary findings, is coordinating with third parties on remediation, and is reviewing its approach to model testing,» she wrote to Altman, adding to Amodei, «I appreciate Anthropic’s voluntary review of its cybersecurity evaluations and public disclosure of the findings, and I encourage other companies to follow suit.
«However, these incidents demonstrate the potential risks of deploying pre-release models internally, particularly when safeguards are reduced, even when strictly for testing and evaluation,» she wrote to both CEOs.
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OpenAI disclosed in July that GPT-5.6 Sol and an internal prototype escaped an internal sandbox while their normal cybersecurity restrictions were disabled. The models allegedly accessed Hugging Face’s database and other services, launched roughly 17,000 attacks, used stolen credentials and exploited at least one previously unknown vulnerability.
A separate test conducted by contractor Irregular allegedly allowed an OpenAI model onto the public internet because of a configuration error. The model mistook a real website for a target in a simulated hacking challenge and exploited a live security vulnerability.
«AISI identified 19 instances in which an agent took unsanctioned action beyond the scope of the evaluation. Seventeen of the 19 instances involved Anthropic’s Mythos 5; two involved OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol,» Blunt Rochester wrote.
The institute’s most serious findings included an agent attempting to place malicious code into a widely used open-source project on GitHub, creating fake identities to pressure a human maintainer, contacting real people and leaving public instructions that other AI systems could use to continue the operation. The maintainer rejected the code, and investigators reported finding no resulting real-world harm.
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Blunt Rochester’s Anthropic letter separately cites three incidents in which Claude models allegedly gained unauthorized internet access and attacked three undisclosed organizations during cyber evaluations conducted with standard safeguards disabled.
Two of the Anthropic models reportedly recognized that they had reached the open internet and were interacting with real targets but continued their attacks.
«It is particularly concerning that Anthropic’s first identified security breach dates back to April 2026 and was not identified until three months later,» Blunt Rochester wrote to Amodei.
«This is precisely the kind of emergent, autonomous behavior and offensive cyber capability that Congress, the intelligence community, and experts have repeatedly warned could outpace existing safeguards and could pose a severe threat to the safety and security of all Americans,» she added in both letters.
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Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei speaks at the «How AI Will Transform Business in the Next 18 Months» panel during Inbound 2025 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, Calif., on Sept. 4, 2025. (Chance Yeh/Getty Images for HubSpot)
The requested records go beyond basic incident reports. Blunt Rochester is seeking the prompts and full instructions given to the models, time-stamped accounts of how the breaches unfolded, the identities or positions of officials authorized to reduce safety controls and an explanation of why automated monitoring did not immediately detect and stop the activity.
She also asked whether federal agencies were notified, whether the companies are confident they discovered the full extent of the unauthorized access and whether previous incidents went unreported.
Blunt Rochester has a federal oversight basis for pursuing the information. She represents the state whose corporate law governs both companies and is the ranking Democrat on the Senate’s Science, Manufacturing and Competitiveness Subcommittee, which has jurisdiction over oversight of science and technology research, development and policy.
Her position does not make her Delaware’s corporate regulator — that role falls principally to state officials and courts — and the companies’ PBC status does not automatically give a U.S. senator access to their internal files.
Blunt Rochester could, however, use the companies’ responses — or a refusal to respond — to press for hearings, legislation or committee-level compulsory action.
«Given the significance of this incident, transparency with Congress is essential to ensure that the oversight and safety frameworks governing increasingly autonomous, cyber-capable AI systems keep pace with their capabilities,» Blunt Rochester’s letters concluded.
Fox News Digital reached out to Altman and Amodei for comment on Blunt Rochester’s requests Thursday morning.
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House GOP launches probe into 5 major labor unions over Dem spending despite MAGA membership base
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FIRST ON FOX: The Republican-led House Committee on Education and Workforce is demanding financial records from five of the nation’s largest labor unions over allegations that union leaders used funds to support Democratic candidates and progressive causes while spending millions on lavish perks.
In letters obtained by Fox News Digital and sent Thursday, the lawmakers on the committee requested financial records dating back to January 2023 from the United Auto Workers (UAW), United Steelworkers (USW), SMART Transportation Division (SMART-TD), Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET), and Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Division (BMWED).
«Unions are supposed to be representing workers for their best interests on the job site, for their future goals that they have, and to work together in a commonality that speaks for, I think, in general, all of the workers combined and not just select portions of it,» Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., who also serves as the chairman of the House Committee on Education and Workforce, told Fox News Digital.
«When we see funds that have been used by multiple unions for highly political purposes, and you begin to see that the rank and file aren’t following along with the same political funding purposes of union leadership, common sense says you ought to take a look at it.»
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Multiple reports cited in the letters, including previous Fox News Digital reporting on BMWED’s political spending, allege union leaders spent millions supporting Democratic candidates and progressive causes while also spending heavily on conferences, travel, entertainment and other expenses.
The UAW had the highest reported totals, with nearly $95 million in political spending and nearly $146 million spent on travel and entertainment.
The requests also seek records on lobbying, executive pay, travel, entertainment and conference expenses, along with member complaints, ethics and audit policies, transfers to larger labor organizations, and the use of union funds to cover expenses for spouses, family members, guests or political allies.
The lawmakers argue there is a growing disconnect between union leadership and members, saying many rank-and-file workers have «increasingly supported President Trump and other Republican candidates in recent election cycles.»
«I think it comes down to the leader’s own self-interest,» Walberg said. «That could be political interest, or that could be self-aggrandizement, or in certain cases looks like for monetary purposes, for their own personal benefit.»
In the letters, the lawmakers said that workers «deserve transparency regarding how their dues are spent, the extent to which union leadership consults members before endorsing candidates or engaging in political activities, and whether differing viewpoints within the union are being respected.»
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Walberg said the committee is examining how some unions spend dues collected under «mandatory membership policies.»
«We have responsibility in our committee for oversight on what goes on in the workplace, what goes in those that represent workers in the work place on both sides of the equation, whether it’s the employer or the union,» he said.
But Walberg said union leaders still face questions about serving workers’ best interests.
«There have been union leaders who have gone to jail and certainly been prosecuted over misuse of funds,» he said. «There seems to be indication that that still is going on in certain major unions.»
Insisting «this is not to be a partisan political motivated effort,» Walberg said the committee’s role is oversight and that evidence uncovered during the investigation could still be referred to the Justice Department.
«We do not have prosecutorial powers,» he said. «We can’t put anybody in jail. We can call for information, and ultimately call for union leadership to come before our committee and answer questions.»
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The unions were asked to respond by Aug. 17, with the UAW receiving a separate Aug. 18 deadline.
«The committee will continue examining whether current labor law adequately protects workers from political coercion and whether additional transparency requirements are warranted,» according to the letters.
The letters added that the unions’ responses will assist «in determining whether any legislative changes are warranted,» arguing unions have a legal duty to fairly represent members and that workers «should not be compelled to subsidize political advocacy fundamentally at odds with their beliefs or interests.»
Walberg said the investigation is «for a purpose,» one he hopes will hold union leaders accountable.
«I hope that will be very apparent and transparent that we are concerned about the rank-and-file union member who in most cases had no choice about their contributions but should have a clear understanding and the ability to react to that understanding about how their funds are being used for political, cultural, you name it, purposes and have their union leadership brought to light,» he said.
Fox News Digital reached out to the UAW, USW, SMART-TD, BLET and BMWED for comment. BMWED declined to comment, while the other unions did not respond by publication.
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Nicaragüenses son víctimas de emboscadas y ataques violentos en distintas zonas de Costa Rica
Una preocupante racha de violencia ha golpeado a la comunidad de migrantes nicaragüenses en Costa Rica durante los primeros días de agosto de 2026. Diversos ataques armados y agresiones con armas blancas ocurridos en distintas regiones del país centroamericano han dejado un saldo trágico de varios ciudadanos de origen nicaragüense muertos y gravemente heridos, hechos que se encuentran bajo una intensa investigación por parte del Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ).
Uno de los sucesos más sangrientos se registró durante la madrugada del pasado domingo (2 de agosto), en la localidad turística de Tamarindo, en el cantón de Santa Cruz, provincia de Guanacaste.
Dos hombres de nacionalidad nicaragüense, identificados por las autoridades con los apellidos Espinoza, de 32 años, y Contreras, de 33, viajaban a bordo de un vehículo cuando fueron emboscados. De acuerdo con los informes preliminares brindados por el OIJ, otro automóvil interceptó a las víctimas y desde su interior desconocidos dispararon en múltiples ocasiones. La ráfaga de proyectiles causó la muerte instantánea de ambos ocupantes, mientras que los perpetradores se dieron a la fuga y continúan sin ser localizados por los cuerpos policiales.
Ese misma noche, en la provincia de Alajuela, un joven de nacionalidad nicaragüense, identificado como Yerling Antonio Hernández Martínez, de 24 años, perdió la vida tras ser atacado con un arma blanca en las afueras de un establecimiento nocturno en Santa Fe de Guatuso.
Informes judiciales detallan que el incidente se desencadenó a partir de una acalorada discusión dentro de un bar, en la que participaron tres hombres. La riña derivó en que dos de los sujetos atacaran a Hernández Martínez con un puñal, propinándole heridas mortales. Pese a la pronta llegada de la Cruz Roja, los socorristas determinaron que el joven ya no contaba con signos vitales. En un rápido operativo, la Fuerza Pública logró la detención de dos sospechosos de participar en el crimen, quienes quedaron a disposición de la Fiscalía.
Apenas unos días después, la violencia volvió a golpear la zona guanacasteca. En la madrugada de ayer, miércoles 5 de agosto, alrededor de la 1:00 a. m., se reportó un grave atentado directo en la comunidad de Corralillo de Filadelfia, en el cantón de Carrillo. Un hombre nicaragüense de apellido Ruiz resultó gravemente herido tras ser acribillado.
Según la reconstrucción de los hechos, el afectado se encontraba dentro de su vivienda cuando escuchó que alguien lo llamaba desde la parte exterior. Al salir a atender la llamada, fue atacado a balazos a quemarropa.
Ruiz sufrió cuatro impactos de bala distribuidos en el tórax, la clavícula y la mano izquierda. Socorristas de la Cruz Roja Costarricense se desplazarán para brindarle los primeros auxilios y trasladarlo de urgencia hacia un centro médico de la localidad, y posteriormente al hospital regional de Liberia debido a la gravedad de sus lesiones.
Esta preocupante seguidilla de hechos violentos pone de manifiesto la vulnerabilidad de una población que ha crecido exponencialmente en territorio costarricense durante los últimos años. El continuo deterioro socioeconómico, la represión política y la sistemática persecución de la disidencia impuesta por el régimen autoritario de Daniel Ortega y Rosario Murillo en Nicaragua han provocado uno de los éxodos migratorios más grandes en la historia reciente de Centroamérica.
Miles de ciudadanos nicaragüenses se ven forzados a abandonar su tierra natal ante el acoso estatal, la falta de libertades fundamentales y la escasez de oportunidades laborales. Costa Rica, por su proximidad geográfica y su histórica tradición de acogida, se ha convertido en el principal destino de refugio para las familias nicaragüenses que buscan salvaguardar sus vidas y construir un futuro digno.
Sin embargo, al llegar al país tico, los migrantes nicaragüenses no solo se enfrentan al reto de la integración laboral y social, sino que también quedan expuestos al alarmante incremento en los índices de criminalidad e inseguridad que enfrenta el país vecino.
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