Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder

By Connor Jones for The Register
Friday, July 31, 2026

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One company's inventive campaign for an unreleased product has become a contest between Anthropic and OpenAI to see which can shout the loudest about its own failures.

Failed superheroes

The incident does not instill a great deal of trust in either Anthropic or OpenAi to safeguard the world from its AI.

Dr Ilia Kolochenko, founder of ImmuniWeb and practising cybersecurity and data protection lawyer, likened the two companies to failed superheroes.

"While making conclusions would be a bit premature at this point in time, the incidents certainly do not increase confidence in the AI vendor's ability to safely deploy AI, let alone to assure their customers that the so-called frontier models are safe to use," he told The Register.

"It is akin to hiring a superhero to protect you but being afraid that the superhero may suddenly go rogue and kill you and your family. Nobody needs such a superhero." Read Full Article