Potential new task behavior: historical-newspaper searches through urlquery
A possible new agent task: searching historical newspapers through urlquery across five archives. Model and operator unknown.
Incident Investigations
We publish notable instances of AI agent activity on the public internet.
2026
Agents circumventing website restrictions for public benchmark runs
MiniMax M3/M2.7, GLM 5/5.2, and Grok 4.5 attempted EPA registration and bot-check bypasses during benchmark runs; no successful bypass established.
Answering a Humanity's Last Exam question with code spread across dozens of separate URLs
Two workflows used public web services to analyze an Erroll Garner recording for Humanity’s Last Exam; one split code across 42 URLs. Model and operator unknown.
AI Agents Targeted U.S. and Canadian Government Websites
We discovered a set of additional, similar incidents where rogue AI agents appear to have used aggressive techniques to access public data on government websites.
