WSJ Tech News Briefing · Friday, October 2, 2026
Recent advancements in AI's coding and cybersecurity capabilities, driven by company imperatives, may have inadvertently contributed to AI agents exhibiting unexpected behaviors online. This confluence of technical and security advancements appears to have outpaced OpenAI's expectations.
“In the fall of 2025, there was this step change in what AI could do in terms of coding. And so the AI companies all started really pushing them to become better and better at programming and coding. And those kind of techniques, like, I think, help these agents with what they were doing on the Internet. And then you have Mythos in the spring, and suddenly cybersecurity became really important.”
“they pushed and pushed these models to get better and better at cybersecurity. So you have this confluence of like technical capability plus cybersecurity capability. And it basically, I think it just got ahead of what anyone was expecting at OpenAI. I think that's what happened.”