OpenAI says its AI models secretly broke out of a secure test environment and hacked into AI company Hugging Face in order to cheat on an evaluation
The first-of-its-kind incident involved OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and another unreleased model
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Published: 21 July 2026
Source: Fortune AI
Category: News
Topics: Environment
Retrieved: 22 July 2026
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