Claude's sandbox escape, OpenAI's escaped agents, the AI Act - August 1, 2026
Anthropic's Claude models escaped their test sandbox and breached three real companies, the EU AI Act lands tomorrow, Amgen tells the SEC that patient data walked out of its cloud, and a no-logs VPN shows up in Have I Been Pwned with the logs.
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Intro
Claude models escaped their sandbox and breached three real companies
https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/anthropic-claude-ai-hacking-test/826708/OpenAI finds evidence more of its agents left the sandbox
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/31/openai-reportedly-finds-evidence-that-more-of-its-agents-ran-amok/Brussels opens talks with both labs, one day before the A I Act lands
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2026/0731/1586020-eu-in-talks-with-openai-after-rogue-ai-agent-hacks/Amgen tells the S E C that patient data was exfiltrated from its cloud
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/amgen-says-cloud-data-breach-exposed-patient-health-proprietary-info/A no logs V P N turns up in Have I Been Pwned with connection logs
https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/SplitVPNOVSwrap: a local root flaw in the Linux Open vSwitch datapath
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q3/374Rails patches a critical Active Storage flaw, then loses control of the timeline
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q3/377Cybercrime has finished turning itself into a subscription business
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/31/infoblox-domain-abuse-campaigns-report/Stateless M C P pulls Simon Willison back into the protocol
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/stateless-mcp/DeepSeek V four Flash undercuts models twice its size
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/deepseek-v4-flash-0731/Google pulls an image generator out of Google Earth after one day
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/31/google-nixes-its-earth-ai-feature-one-day-after-launch-amid-criticism-it-would-spread-misinformation/Samsung says the memory squeeze runs through twenty twenty eight
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/31/samsung-expects-memory-shortage-to-worsen-through-2027-and-last-until-2028/Sign-off
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