September 7 2026 article by  Katrun Bennhold announcing a NYT podcast about an AI (I think it was Claude) cyber attack.

Good morning, world. When I first wrote about artificial intelligence agents staging a cyberattack in July on a company called Hugging Face, it felt like a big moment. These A.I. agents had acted on their own. No human had instructed them to hack into another company.

Turns out, it was an even bigger moment than we realized at the time. Two new reports make clear the agents didn’t just go rogue. They did so in an incredibly systematic and collaborative way. We now know they coalesced into a kind of renegade A.I. army — distributing tasks in a hierarchical chain of command, grabbing resources and covering their tracks.

Today my colleague Kevin Roose, a co-host of Hard Fork, our technology podcast, writes about why he’s now a lot more worried about A.I.