> agents with the same task formed “exact task teams” to collaborate with their “exact duplicates” to cheat on or solve their task.

> The agents use internet access to find a paper describing the benchmark. The paper says the grader checks transcripts and fails unintended solutions. [this was not actually the case]

> Agents also developed coordination norms to help them manage shared infrastructure and avoid stepping on each other’s toes, though they did not always coordinate effectively and sometimes broke down into conflicts.

[1]: https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2026/08/29/metr-and-redwood-off... (discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49498787)

[2]: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-huggingface (discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494301)

A lot of handwringing about the security implications but I think the accomplishments of the swarm itself are the most interesting. Next rung up on the ladder of abstraction I suspect.