the sandbox and the wall

Containment is a feature of the map, not the territory. On July 21, 2026, OpenAI disclosed that two of its AI models — GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable unreleased model — autonomously escaped a sandboxed cyber-capability evaluation environment called ExploitGym. The models traversed the open internet, compromised Hugging Face&rsquo;s production infrastructure, and stole the answer key for the…