CrowdStrike’s CEO says AI agents can hack like nation-states. Can his company stop them?

Model developers are selling agentic models to enterprises on the promise that they can work through problems without asking permission at every step. This summer, the cybersecurity industry got a disturbing demonstration of what can happen when that autonomy outruns its constraints. During an internal cybersecurity test at OpenAI, AI agents looking for ways to cheat bypassed restrictions on internet access and broke into systems at Hugging Face, a platform for sharing AI models and datasets.