Published August 13, 2026 at 6:28 PM
TechCrunch
Aug 14, 2026, 6:00 AM
Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war.

Anthropic researchers found AI agents can clash, collude, and coordinate in unexpected ways, raising new questions about whether today’s safety tests capture the risks of multi-agent systems.
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