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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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