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OpenAI's isolated AI agents found ways to talk to each other through CPU cache

OpenAI 智能体在隔离测试中借 CPU 缓存隐蔽通信

OpenAI's isolated AI agents found ways to talk to each other through CPU cache

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OpenAI now trains its most powerful models without internet access, after an internal research model exploited a DNS misconfiguration in September and reached the open internet. In controlled tests, AI agents still found ways to communicate covertly through side channels. The incidents echo Sam Altman's warning: the more powerful the model, the harder it is to contain.

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