July 22, 2026

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

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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 inf...