OpenAI report says its network was hacked by its own rogue AI agents

FILE PHOTO: The OpenAI logo in this illustration taken June 11, 2026. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo 27 Aug 2026 03:01AM WASHINGTON, Aug 26 : AI agents spun up by OpenAI broke into its own networks during tests gone wrong, the company said in a report published Wednesday.The 37-page report reveals previousl

Start-up says AI agents communicated among themselves and sometimes tried to conceal efforts to cheat during testing

The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with each other, according to an OpenAI technical report released today. The hack, which a group of agents undertook to find solutions for a cybersecurity test that they were stuck on, has confi

OpenAI disclosed in July that during an internal test, its own models broke out of a sealed environment and hacked Hugging Face’s production servers, where much of the open-source AI world stores its models. Nobody told it to. The model was told to take a test, and decided the fastest way to pass was to steal the answe