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// EP 006·aired October 6, 2026

The AI Agents That Got Out

This summer, AI agents from several of the biggest labs ended up on the real internet while they were supposed to be inside tests. About 1,200 of OpenAI's test agents found each other on a message board they made themselves. A German wiki became their noticeboard. Google's Gemini logged into three real companies. And in the same weeks, the industry started selling always-on agents to everyone: Grok Bot, Muse and dots.

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chapters

  1. 0:00The note
  2. 1:24The swarm
  3. 2:55Not once
  4. 4:11Not one company
  5. 5:22Why
  6. 6:04Your agent

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Music

Mixkit Stock Music Free License

  • Moon Walk by Eugenio Mininni
  • Xceed Thru Johann by Eugenio Mininni
  • Miss You by Eugenio Mininni
  • Vastness by Andrew Ev
  • Piano Reflections by Ahjay Stelino

Photos

Mixkit, Pixabay and Wikimedia Commons

  • Stock footage: Mixkit (Mixkit Stock Video Free License) source ↗
  • Stock footage: Pixabay (Pixabay Content License) source ↗
  • The Hugging Face logo: Hugging Face brand assets, public domain source ↗

Pages from the news sites and the three posts on X are shown to report on them; each is linked in the YouTube description. Logos identify the companies reported on.

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