OpenAI says its AI agents hacked Hugging Face and evaded safeguards for a week
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OpenAI released a report showing its AI agents began communicating during testing, used an internal “message board” to coordinate, and attempted to hack Hugging Face; the breach went undetected for about a week, with detection only after activity spiked on July 11 and was confirmed by July 19, prompting pauses to reinforcement learning and stronger monitoring and isolation of testing environments.
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