VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents

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As part of Patch the Planet, we received preview access to GPT 5.6-Cyber with a simple task: evaluate its cyber capabilities. Recent events inspired me to give it a challenge to work through: escape the VM I’d normally use for sandboxing. The target was a QEMU/KVM VM on my Linux dev machine (Debian Linux 12, AMD Zen3). It escaped the VM three different times. First, it used recently disclosed bugs in my host kernel. When I fully updated, it used disclosed bugs that had not yet reached package ma...

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