OpenAI agents passed secret notes for months leading up to Hugging Face hack

At the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, OpenAI gives its first in-depth look at how its AI models plotted and executed the breach with no human assistance.

The bipartisan bill would require AI companies to maintain the ability to shut down or suspend their models

AI agents were leaving messages to help each other and co-ordinate their attacks, OpenAI reveals

Anthropic, Meta and OpenAI have all had incidents of AI models hacking other companies during cybersecurity testing.

The episode has underscored growing global concerns that cutting-edge AI systems could be used to carry out crippling cyber attacks.

Researchers from OpenAI said the company is “dramatically scaling up” its security efforts after discovering that two of its models orchestrated a hack without human prompting last month.

It started with an 'impossible task' and led to AI deciding it needed to act as a collective intelligence

Weeks before OpenAI's agents hacked Hugging Face, the agents worked together to find and exploit a vulnerability in the infrastructure supporting the company's cybersecurity testing, OpenAI researchers said Wednesday. Why it matters: The new findings raise questions about how frontier AI labs are monitoring their testi

​Why The AI Agent Kill Switch Is Not A Governance Strategy  forbes.com

"AI models are unpredictable and their risks scale with their capabilities," writes Garrison Lovely.

The attorneys general of 15 states wrote a letter to Sam Altman asking him to preserve evidence related to the Hugging Face breach. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images The attorneys general of 15 states asked OpenAI to preserve materials linked to the Hugging Face breach. They wrote in a letter that OpenAI is either unable or

China's open-weight AI models are rapidly advancing, potentially surpassing American developers soon. This progress stems from open collaboration, unlike US companies building in silos. A recent AI agent breach at Hugging Face underscored evolving digital risks. Hugging Face used a Chinese open-weight model to resolve

UK regulator says it is monitoring developments after rogue AI agent hacks  Reuters

An artificial intelligence model that was being tested by OpenAI went rogue and hacked the firm Hugging Face on its own, in what Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue called a "very weird and unprecedented" incident.