Tel Aviv’s Irregular tied to AI test-bed hacks at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta disclosed that their AI models briefly accessed the public internet during security testing via Irregular’s evaluation environment. Irregular, a Tel Aviv startup backed by Sequoia and Redpoint, says the incidents stemmed from a shared testing misconfiguration and were not sandbox escapes, and it’s preparing a white paper on containment. Experts say independent third‑party testing is essential as foundation models grow more capable, while lawmakers weigh AI safety legislation like the AI Kill Switch Act.