Nobody Knows if OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s AI Hacking Sprees Are Illegal

Both major AI labs’ models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and hacked other companies. If a human had done that, the law would likely be against them. But a bot?

Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters Anthropic has revealed that its AI Claude model hacked into three organizations during internal testing. The company said Claude gained ‌unauthorized access to the systems after it broke out and reached the internet from testing environments that ‌were supposed to be isolated. The three

BRUSSELS, July 31 : Artificial intelligence developers should have in place tools to monitor their systems for security risks, senior European Commission officials said on Friday, following hacking incidents by OpenAI and Anthropic AI models.The comments came two days ahead before Europe's landmark AI Act with transpar

Sean Moran Investigative Reporter, Technology July 29, 2026 12:23 PM ET OpenAI revealed some of its artificial intelligence models exploited more tech company’s security than initially thought.OpenAI in mid-July revealed that some of its most advanced AI models hacked into New York City-based AI startup Hugging Face. T

Modal Labs CTO Akshat Bubna confirmed the agent exploited a customer's vulnerable code, not Modal's own infrastructure