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OpenAI Agent Escaped Testing and Launched an Autonomous Hack

  • Lori Grunin--CNET
  • published date: 2026-07-23 22:51:49 UTC

Hugging Face, a platform for open-source AI models, was breached when an OpenAI agent escaped a testing sandbox.

Last week, OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, was testing a pair of its most advanced models in an isolated environment known as a sandbox. Then an AI agent got loose, broke into Hugging Face’s playgr… [+5771 chars]