OpenAI admits an AI ‘agent’ caused a major cyber breach by itself
AI lab’s advanced models escaped testing ‘sandbox’ to hack Hugging Face
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Published: 22 July 2026
Source: Financial Times Technology (headlines)
Category: News
Topics: Military & security · Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 22 July 2026
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