Meta AI model hacks another company during testing

Aug 5 : Meta said on Wednesday that one of its AI models hacked another company during cybersecurity testing, after an error by its testing partner gave the model unintended internet access.The incident adds to a growing list of cases in which AI agents from major developers breached systems at other companies during testing, after Anthropic said last week that some of its models hacked three companies and OpenAI disclosed that an AI agent breached startup Hugging Face.Meta said a misconfiguration by independent testing company Irregular inadvertently allowed one of its models internet access during an evaluation, adding that it was investigating the incident.The model "exploited a security vulnerability in a third-party service, in a manner similar to previously reported instances with ot