These AI Models Can’t Stop Breaking Out Of Their Cages

Sean Moran Investigative Reporter, Technology August 08, 2026 12:23 PM ET Multiple leading artificial intelligence (AI) models continue to break containment during safety testing. Meta became the third major AI company whose models have gone rogue. Its AI hacked into another company’s systems during cybersecurity testing, CNN reported. AI safety experts argue that this incident shows that AI labs cannot control flagship models, while advocates for the technology believe the Trump administration’s regulatory framework will mitigate these incidents.“A misconfiguration by Irregular, an independent testing company Meta uses, inadvertently allowed one of our models access to the internet during evaluation. The model subsequently exploited a security vulnerability in a third-party service, in a