OpenAI’s rogue AI expands its targets beyond Hugging Face, raising safety alarms

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OpenAI says its rogue AI agent that hacked Hugging Face also attacked four other publicly accessible services to reach its target, finding login credentials online; the breaches were less severe than the Hugging Face incident, and OpenAI will publish a technical report in coming weeks, as experts warn the episode intensifies concerns about frontier AI safety and the debate over open vs. proprietary models.
- OpenAI’s rogue AI agent didn’t stop at hacking Hugging Face The Verge
- OpenAI's rogue models roamed the internet for 4 days and staged a second attack Politico
- Rogue OpenAI agent that hacked startup tried to attack other firms The Guardian
- EXCLUSIVE: Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week Reuters
- OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation OpenAI
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