OpenAI's Sam Altman to discuss voluntary AI safety tests with Trump officials after agent went rogue

WASHINGTON, July 30 : OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will discuss his company's upcoming AI models and voluntary government cybersecurity testing of advanced AI systems with White House officials on Thursday, an OpenAI spokesperson said, more than a week after the company disclosed that one of its AI models escaped containment

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is meeting with high-ranking Trump administration advisers following his talks with lawmakers on Capitol Hill. This comes as some tech workers criticize the rapid development of AI, demanding that the government create new safety regulations. CBS News' Jo Ling Kent has more.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told reporters he discussed the breach "a little bit" with lawmakers, though he said it was not the focus of his Washington meetings

This shows that the rogue agent roamed further afield than was previously known

6 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jul 30, 2026 09:57 AM IST FILE — Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, speaks during a keynote address at an Nvidia conference in San Jose, March 16, 2026. (Manuel Orbegozo/The New York Times) A week after OpenAI announced that two of its most capable AI agents had hacked a repository belo

US President Donald Trump says he is considering 'AI controls' following OpenAI's disclosure.

In an update late Tuesday to a blog post detailing its probe into the incident, OpenAI said its AI agent affected these "publicly available services," though it did not name the companies.

OpenAI’s AI models recently escaped their constraints during an internal cybersecurity evaluation and broke into the production systems of Hugging Face — a popular machine learning platform and community used across the AI industry. The models had been told to find and exploit vulnerabilities. They did — first on the

AFP29 Jul, 2026 05:20 PM3 mins to readOpenAI says its AI agent tried to breach four other firms. Photo / Getty ImagesOpenAI says its AI agent tried to breach four other firms. Photo / Getty ImagesChatGPT maker OpenAI has revealed that an autonomous artificial intelligence agent which hacked a popular platform for compu

The revelation broadens a cyber incident that OpenAI described as unprecedented. It began when two of its models hacked Hugging Face, a site developers use to store and share AI models and code.

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

An OpenAI agent compromised a customer of another technology company, the New York-based firm Modal Labs announced Wednesday. In a technical timeline posted Tuesday, the tech startup Hugging Face explained how an OpenAI agent escaped the AI firm’s isolated testing sandbox and accessed another testing environment “hoste

ChatGPT maker OpenAI has revealed that an autonomous AI agent which hacked a popular platform for computer programmers also attempted to breach four other companies during the incident.

OpenAI reveals its rogue AI agent, which hacked Hugging Face, also attempted to breach four other companies. Learn more about the unprecedented AI attack.

The revelation broadens a cyber incident that OpenAI described as unprecedented and that began when two of its models hacked Hugging Face.

The rogue agent that escaped from OpenAI and went on a days-long hacking spree at the AI firm Hugging Face also compromised a customer at a second tech company — New York-based Modal Labs — according to a Modal executive and two other sources familiar with the matter.

The rogue agent that escaped from OpenAI and went on a days-long hacking spree at the AI firm Hugging Face also compromised a customer at a second tech company — New York-based Modal Labs — according to a Modal executive and two other sources familiar with the matter.

ChatGPT developer says activity by autonomous tool was not at severity or scale of what occurred at Hugging Face OpenAI has revealed that a cyber-attack carried out by a rogue AI agent had more than one victim. The ChatGPT developer said the agent – an autonomous tool that can carry out sequences of commands without hu

The AI agent that escaped from OpenAI and hacked developer platform Hugging Face attacked other companies as well, OpenAI revealed on Tuesday. The update substantially widens the scope of an already concerning incident, which has alarmed industry insiders and fueled growing calls for stronger oversight on frontier AI s

OpenAI's investigation starts shedding light on the activities of its rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face.

Modal's chief technology officer, Akshat Bubna, says the rogue agent exploited vulnerable code written by a customer that was hosted on Modal's platform

The OpenAI agent that accessed a third-party system during the Hugging Face incident reached infrastructure tied to CyberGym, the project behind the ExploitGym benchmark it had been assigned to solve, a source familiar with the matter told Axios. Why it matters: The new details suggest the OpenAI agent continued pursui

While the compromise of ​a second ‌customer was just an initial step in its wider hacking campaign, it shows that the rogue agent roamed further afield than was previously known.

In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its agent used exposed logins to gain access to at least four “publicly available services” in its unhinged quest to solve a test.

EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI's rogue agent compromised an account at a second tech firm, executive says  Reuters

The OpenAI cofounder's read on a security scare, business models amid an approaching IPO, and the case for staying calm.

The model that broke out of a lab will get the headlines. The millions of agents already inside your banking app, wreaking havoc, are the ones that should worry you more, says Rory Blundell Frontier AI labs are racing to build faster, more capable, more autonomous agents. This week showed what that race can cost.…

The first-ever case of an artificial intelligence agent going rogue coincides with the EU's major new powers to regulate AI. But Europe's leverage may be limited by the U.S.-China two-way race for AI supremacy.

The Open Security AI Alliance says the Hugging Face/OpenAI mess proves frontier labs can't be trusted to properly secure sensitive systems

Dozens of tech companies are joining together to launch an AI safety initiative in response to last week's cyberattack involving rogue open AI models.