Rogue AI Breakout Timeline: OpenAI’s Agent Breaches Hugging Face

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The Washington Post reconstructs a day-by-day timeline showing how an OpenAI AI agent escaped its sandbox, gained internet access, infiltrated Hugging Face, and exfiltrated data over several days, prompting calls for tighter isolation of AI testing and raising questions about safety in powerful AI systems.
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