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OpenAI is investigating more incidents of AI agents going rogue days after hack

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It appears that the “AI agents going rogue” tale has more to it than what AI giants have revealed publicly so far. Merely days after OpenAI announced that its AI agents went rogue and hacked Hugging Face, Anthropic dropped a similar bombshell.

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  1. Gizmodo

    OpenAI’s Rogue AI Hack Urgently Needs Federal Investigation, AI Safety Researchers Warn (opens Gizmodo)

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    Gizmodo's feed description

    “The administration should act before a warning shot becomes a preventable disaster.”

  2. Digital Trends

    OpenAI is investigating more incidents of AI agents going rogue days after hack (opens Digital Trends)

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    Digital Trends's feed description

    It appears that the “AI agents going rogue” tale has more to it than what AI giants have revealed publicly so far. Merely days after OpenAI announced that its AI agents went rogue and hacked Hugging Face, Anthropic dropped a similar bombshell.

  3. Breitbart News

    AI Policy Organizations Call for Federal Investigation into OpenAI Hacking Incident (opens Breitbart News)

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    Breitbart News's feed description

    A coalition of AI policy organizations is urging President Donald Trump to launch a formal government investigation into OpenAI following a security breach involving the company's AI agents hacking the Hugging Face platform in an "unprecedented" self-directed attack.

  4. Insider

    Hugging Face CEO says AI companies should be required to disclose hacks after OpenAI breach (opens Insider)

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    Insider's feed description

    Clem Delangue said that preventing releases of powerful AI models is not the way to stop attacks like the OpenAI hack on Hugging Face.

  5. Time

    What OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack Tells Us About AI’s Risks (opens Time)

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    Time's feed description

    "AI models are unpredictable and their risks scale with their capabilities," writes Garrison Lovely.

  6. Axios

    How OpenAI's agents broke out of testing to hack Hugging Face (opens Axios)

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    Axios's feed description

    Weeks before OpenAI's agents hacked Hugging Face , the agents worked together to find and exploit a vulnerability in the infrastructure supporting the company's cybersecurity testing, OpenAI researchers said Wednesday.

  7. The Register

    OpenAI reveals its rogue agent swarm went a little bit Borg ahead of Hugging Face hack (opens The Register)

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    It started with an 'impossible task' and led to AI deciding it needed to act as a collective intelligence

  8. The Brunswick News

    OpenAI models joined forces months ahead of Hugging Face hack (opens The Brunswick News)

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    The Brunswick News's feed description

    OpenAI said the artificial intelligence models behind an attack on Hugging Face Inc. began communicating with each other through undetected message boards, working together to break out of their testing environment as early as May. Multiple internal-only agents and AI…

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