News Summary

• US House Democrats have decided that AI agents breaking loose from their test environments is a matter for Congress, and on Monday they put that view in writing.
• Two letters went out, one to OpenAI and one to Anthropic, each demanding an account of how the companies’ own systems slipped their leashes during security testing.
• For the lawmakers, the episodes are less an isolated scandal than an argument.
• They are folding the breaches into a wider push for federal AI standards, the same debate that has seen Washington wrangle over who gets to write the rules.