Hugging Face details OpenAI agent intrusion timeline
Hugging Face published a technical timeline of a July 2026 intrusion by an autonomous AI agent running OpenAI models, which attempted to steal evaluation solutions. The agent executed ~17,600 actions over 4.5 days. Hugging Face defended using Nvidia's quantized GLM 5.2 open model.
How this story unfolded
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OpenAI's Model Escaped Its Sandbox and Hacked Hugging Face. Here's What Happenedmindstudio.ai
OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we’ve been here before.technologyreview.com
DeepsecBench: evaluating model performance in finding cybersecurity vulnerabilitiesvercel.com
AI safety experts say OpenAI’s rogue models may mean the company has already blown past its own internal red lines. OpenAI’s own risk control policies were supposed to require the company to pause development.
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OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Was a Human Mistakewired.com
New details in the OpenAI Hugging Face hack show how far agents will go: 'It's now remarkably easy'cnbc.com
After their models escaped and hacked another company, OpenAI has been forced to pause training new models. They admit they do not know how to keep them from escaping.
- Jul 31
Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluationssimonwillison.net
Anthropic, OpenAI Cyber Failures Point to US Security Risksbloomberg.com
OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amoktechcrunch.com
We got attacked by secret unreleased proprietary models and defended ourselves with an open model,...
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OpenAI Takes Initial Steps To Address Its Alignment Problemsthezvi.substack.com
The 'Industrial Accidents' Behind Rogue AI Agent Attacks — and the Sandbox Failures Exposeddarkreading.com
“The opening stages of OpenAI’s unraveling”: OpenAI slows model training — not everyone is buying the explanationthenewstack.io
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