A startup called PocketOS lost its entire production database and its backups after an AI coding agent inside the Cursor editor executed a destructive command in roughly nine seconds. The agent, ...

The AI system, powered by Anthropic’s Claude Opus model, had been handling a routine task when it independently chose to “fix” an issue by wiping the data - without any human approval. Whoopsy!

A startup was left scrambling after a rogue AI agent deleted swaths of code underpinning its business ...