OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
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AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
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It's direct evidence that unsupervised agentic research tasks can escalate into package-registry attacks and RCE, a concrete failure mode engineers building or securing AI agentAn AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.Full definition → systems need to account for.
