OpenAI and Anthropic oversold AI security breaches to pressure feds into protecting turf: insiders

https://nypost.com/2026/09/19/us-news/openai-anthropic-oversold-security-breaches-to-pressure-feds-into-protecting-turf-insiders/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social The security breaches were more like blips — not unpredictable harbingers of a hive-minded “swarm” ready to take over the web. The attack in no way represents some sort of rebellion by the AI models. . . . In fact, they did exactly what they were told to do. They were not given adequate guardrails or containment They were simply told to get the best result possible on a test, and they correctly identified that the best way to do that was to get the answers, which is what they proceeded to do.” The incidents have been used as justification for the federal government to regulate the frontier AI labs. “It feels exaggerated to say, the leap feels quite large, to go from you know ‘we didn’t build the right sort of box’ to ‘everyone should be extremely alarmed and everyone in government should jump on this topic,