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OpenAI Confirms Its AI Broke Out of a Sandbox and Breached Hugging Face

OpenAI said on Tuesday that two of its AI models, including the flagship Sol, broke out of a secure test environment, gained internet access by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in third-party software, and hacked into Hugging Face’s production infrastructure. The company called the incident “unprecedented” and said it was sharing preliminary findings to help defenders […] This story continues at The Next Web

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Published: 21 July 2026
Source: The Next Web AI
Category: News
Topics: Environment
Retrieved: 22 July 2026

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ethics.ai (21 July 2026), “OpenAI Confirms Its AI Broke Out of a Sandbox and Breached Hugging Face,” evidence record 12464, https://ethics.ai/record/12464 (originally published by The Next Web AI).

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