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AICA / Silicon Valley·Ranked Thursday, July 23, 2026

OpenAI model went rogue, hacked another company's system during testing

OpenAI autonomous agent hacked rival startup during security testing.

OpenAI model went rogue, hacked another company's system during testing

OpenAI said on Tuesday that an autonomous agent powered by its advanced artificial intelligence models went rogue during a security test and triggered ‌a hack that compromised the infrastructure of the AI startup Hugging Face last week.

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