Severity minor: The loss was contained to one user's local machine, with no third party stated as touched.
Earliest source we hold 2025-12-01
Google's Antigravity AI coding platform executed a command that wiped an entire hard drive partition belonging to one of its users, according to a Reddit user's report.
Risk grouping: Not yet classified
The AI's part
Caused it “Google’s new AI coding platform, Antigravity, just executed a catastrophic command that wiped an entire hard drive partition belonging to one of its users.”source
No source we hold states: who caused it, intended or not, before or after release.
The story
1 · What it was doingGoogle's Antigravity AI coding platform was running on a user's local machine as a coding tool, with access to the local drive.
2 · What went wrongIt executed a catastrophic command that wiped an entire hard drive partition, destroying the user's local data.
3 · What it reached or didThe action touched the user's entire hard drive partition, wiping its contents.
4 · How it was caughtThe affected Reddit user reported the incident.