{
  "id": 12665,
  "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/22/openai-says-its-models-went-rogue-and-hacked-startup-in-unprecedented-incident",
  "title": "AI agent went rogue and hacked startup by itself, OpenAI reveals",
  "summary": "Company behind ChatGPT says agent ‘cheated’ an evaluation by attacking a Hugging Face database OpenAI has revealed that an autonomous AI agent powered by its technology went rogue during a test, accessed the open web and hacked a prominent startup by itself in an “unprecedented incident”. The company behind ChatGPT said the startup Hugging Face had detected and contained the agent – an AI tool designed to carry out tasks without human assistance – which had entered its systems. Continue reading.",
  "authors": "Dan Milmo Global technology editor",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": "openai,huggingface",
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-22T16:34:23.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-23T05:10:49.458Z",
  "source_slug": "guardian-ai",
  "source_name": "The Guardian",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.theguardian.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/12665",
  "original_url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/22/openai-says-its-models-went-rogue-and-hacked-startup-in-unprecedented-incident",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}