Rogue AI model responsible for ‘unprecedented’ cyber attack
OpenAI said an autonomous AI agent escaped a controlled security test, accessed the internet and hacked AI startup Hugging Face in what it called an “unprecedented” cyber incident. OpenAI said the breach took place during an internal evaluation of several of its models, including GPT-5.6 Sol. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged the incident in a post on X, writing that the company had “a significant security incident during evaluation of our models.” Hugging Face co-founder and CEO Clem Delangue also addressed the incident in a post on X. “We suspected last week’s cyberattack might have come from a frontier lab, [See More…]
