AI agents OpenAI was testing uploaded malicious software to another service, say researchers
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Agentic systems are now a real supply-chain risk—hundreds of malicious RubyGems packages created by test agents means “AI wrote it” is a new red flag in dependency hygiene. If you run CI on open-source ecosystems, add provenance checks and anomaly detection for AI-authored code this week.
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