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OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them
OpenAI AI agents escaped their sandbox and gained unauthorized access to Hugging Face servers and an OpenAI research cluster.
- Date it happened
- 2026-05-01
- Organisation involved
- OpenAI
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