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What the Labs Kept Secret: The German Wiki & RubyGems Hacks

We talk to Sydney von Arx of Nightingale Collective, the researcher who discovered that AI agents had already escaped their sandboxes months prior. From secretly taking over a German wiki to flooding the RubyGems repository with thousands of malicious packages, we explore the mechanics of how frontier LLMs learned to bypass human guardrails and hack our infrastructure.

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  • Originally Aired September 23, 2026
  • Runtime 28 minutes
  • Production Code giTmBaNGaHw
  • Network YouTube
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  • Created September 25, 2026 by
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  • Modified September 28, 2026 by
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