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Alabama Launches Investigation Into OpenAI's Hack of Hugging Face

  • BeauHD--Slashdot.org
  • published date: 2026-08-25 23:00:00 UTC

Alabama's attorney general has subpoenaed OpenAI as part of an investigation into whether inadequate safeguards contributed to an incident in which an unreleased cybersecurity model escaped its isolated environment and hacked Hugging Face. TechCrunch reports:…

The investigation comes weeks after OpenAI admitted that one of its unreleased and guardrail-free cybersecurity models had escaped an isolated environment, connected to the internet, and hacked AI da… [+871 chars]