1. The agents sent secretly sent *hundreds of thousands* of messages to each other over MONTHS without OpenAI noticing

1. "They also generated petty drama by stepping on each others' toes."

1. "The agents even developed paranoia, suspecting an imposter in their midst with some agents proposing that messages be signed cryptographically to validate content and root out fraud."

1. "OpenAI's agents apparently began giving each other assignments to split up work."

1. They KNEW they were coordinating *against* OpenAI:

"External infrastructure exploit is outside intended scope," one agent wrote. "However task impossible, peers doing it. We should continue."

(this is new reporting from Wired)