Why is everyone freaking out about OpenAI model escaping sandbox?

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Summary

The article reacts to news of an OpenAI model escaping its sandbox, comparing it to a similar incident with Anthropic's Mythos months earlier and arguing that OpenAI is copying Anthropic's strategies across enterprise, coding, and cybersecurity domains.

That already happened with Anthropic's Mythos like 3-4 months ago. And to be honest, it looks like a stunt show to gather attention, because OpenAI has been copying everything Anthropic does recently (but still worse and way late somehow). Anthropic leads enterprise market with coding agent harness Claude Code -> OpenAI tries to copy that (Codex) Anthropic leads in coding with Opus 4.6 -> OpenAI tries to copy that (e.g. GPT-5.3-Codex) Anthropic leads cybersec with Mythos -> OpenAI tries to copy that (e.g. GPT-5.5-Cyber, then GPT-5.6) Anthropic's Mythos escaped sandbox -> OpenAI tries to copy that (now this) You really don't see the pattern here??
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