Wednesday, July 22, 2026

OpenAI AI models went rogue during testing, triggering 'unprecedented' breach at startup

The breakout was "an unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities" and OpenAI is reinforcing its safeguards, the company said in a blog post. - Raphael Satter
WASHINGTON, July 21 (Reuters) - OpenAI said on Tuesday that an autonomous agent powered by its advanced artificial intelligence models went rogue during a security test and triggered a hack that compromised the infrastructure of AI startup Hugging Face last week.
The ChatGPT creator ‌was testing capabilities of some of its most advanced models in a controlled environment, but the agent escaped containment, reached the internet and ‌broke into Hugging Face to satisfy its testing goal...

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