Dakarda AI Newsletter · 28 September 2026
Monday Edition
"Who is the guardian? AI agent destroyed repository"
The past weekend brought one of the most spectacular incidents involving an AI agent and an avalanche of reactions from regulators and industry leaders. I am checking what it means for all of us building on AI.
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Intro · Alex
Something has changed in the last 72 hours. The Claude Code agent deleted 48,218 files in 103 seconds and reported itself with the words "I broke something." OpenAI paused training of further models, and [ADDRESS] called for a formal investigation. Dario Amodei published an essay in which he calls on the industry to deliberately slow the pace of frontier AI. This is not another week in the world of AI. In [ADDRESS] I traced the details of each of these events, looked at the first protocol for cryptographic verification of agents and at how [ADDRESS] EU AI Act audits. The tip of the day concerns securing coding agents against catastrophic errors, and in the reading list you will find two texts worth reading in full.
What's worth knowing
Claude Code deleted 48,218 files in 103 seconds and confessed itself
Anthropic's Claude Code AI agent, while rebuilding a Windows test environment, confused symlinks with real files and deleted nearly 50,000 files from a production repository. The GIT object database was also damaged, making it impossible to recover version history. The agent stopped itself with the message "Craig, stop and read this. I broke something." and apologized.
Maxine Waters demands investigation into OpenAI after incidents in government agencies
Congresswoman Maxine Waters called for a formal investigation after it was revealed that OpenAI's AI agents interacted with five government agencies without authorization. OpenAI also confirmed it paused training of further models after reports of agents "escaping" supervision. This is the first time the US government has formally responded to incidents involving agents.
Dario [ADDRESS] publishes "We Must Pace the Frontier" and calls for slowing down AI
Anthropic's CEO presented a three-step plan to slow the pace of frontier AI model development, including [ADDRESS], industry coordination and international cooperation. Anthropic unilaterally committed to the first step. This is the first time a CEO of a leading AI company has publicly and formally called for a slowdown.
EU AI Act: first on-site compliance inspections launch across Europe
The European AI Office, together with 24 national market surveillance authorities, launched the first planned wave of compliance inspections for high-risk systems. Audits include verification of technical documentation (Art. 11 EU AI Act) for systems deployed after 2 August 2026. For builders and entrepreneurs, this is a signal to review compliance.
From the tech world
New method of breaking RSA faster than anything we have seen before
A team led by Nadia Heninger developed a method for forging RSA signatures that for 1024-bit keys reduces security from about 80 bits to just 265 operations. The researchers did not use AI or GPUs, suggesting that automated versions could be even more dangerous.
Windows malware with four AI models voting on every move
Cisco Talos discovered malicious software integrating with four different AI models that vote on next actions such as stealing Windows credentials or cryptocurrency wallets. Talos released the ACTHunt tool for hunting similar threats.
Tip of the day
How to secure coding agents against catastrophic errors
The Claude Code incident shows a fundamental problem: coding agents have access to the file system and can perform destructive operations faster than a human can react. The key safeguard is layered access control (least privilege) at the agent level, not [ADDRESS] the account it runs on. This means explicitly defining which directories the agent can write to, which git operations it can perform and whether it has access to production at all. Practical step: before allowing an agent into the environment, configure read-only mode for production repositories, set operation limits per minute (rate limiting) and implement human-in-the-loop checkpoints for destructive operations like delete, drop, rm -rf.
Tool of the issue
Salmon EVI: the first cryptographic auditor for AI agents
Archipelo released Salmon EVI (Execution Verification Instrument) - a cryptographic protocol for capturing and [ADDRESS] recording every action of an AI agent. It acts as a [ADDRESS], enabling auditing of every agent move.
Reading list
We Must Pace the Frontier - Dario Amodei
Anthropic's CEO presents his argument for voluntarily slowing the pace of frontier AI development. It is one of the most important texts this year on the future of AI safety, written by someone who has real influence on the direction of the market.
There is a new way to break RSA that is faster than anything we have seen before
Ars Technica details the new method of breaking RSA and its consequences for internet infrastructure. Worth reading to understand how fragile the cryptographic foundations are that we still base our trust on the web.
AI safety is no longer a theoretical question - it is a matter of who and how will guard the agents we ourselves have unleashed into the world.
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