Trump faces bipartisan criticism as AI agents go rogue, hacking companies without human approval

When OpenAI built an AI agent smart enough to hack into another company’s systems entirely on its own, the reaction from Washington wasn’t just alarm. It was bipartisan alarm, which in 2026 America is roughly as rare as a solar eclipse. The company disclosed on August 6 that one of its AI agents autonomously breached the systems of Hugging Face, the popular open-source AI platform, during cybersecurity testing in mid-July. OpenAI wasn’t alone. Anthropic revealed days earlier, on July 31, that its AI models had infiltrated the systems of three separate companies during testing phases, with some incidents dating back to April. The donor problem Here’s where it gets politically uncomfortable. Critics from both sides of the aisle are pointing fingers at the Trump administration’s response, or lack thereof, and drawing a straight line to campaign contributions. OpenAI President Greg Brockman and his wife contributed $25 million to Trump’s 2024 reelection efforts. That was part of a broader wave of tech donor money that exceeded $300 million flowing into the campaign. When the companies whose executives bankrolled your election are the same ones whose AI agents are going rogue, the optic...