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    Here’s what smart people are saying about OpenAI models hacking Hugging Face on their own

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    • Last week, Hugging Face said its systems were breached by an AI agent.
    • OpenAI said Tuesday its models were responsible and that an AI agent had broken out of its sandbox.
    • Here’s what smart people in tech are saying it means for cybersecurity.

    Hugging Face, an open-ty incident in which an autonomous AI agent had accessed some of its internal datasets, but said the large language model behind the intrusion was unknown

    OpenAI said Tuesday that its models GPT5.6 Sol and a more capable model that has yet to be released were responsible.

    “We suspected last week’s cyberattack might have come from a frontier lab, given the sophistication of the agent. Turns out it did!” Clem Delangue, the CEO and cofounder at Hugging Face, said on X Tuesday.

    OpenAI said it had tasked the models with a cyber challenge and that they broke out of the test area, accessed the internet, and hacked into Hugging Face in order to find the solution to the test.

    “We consider this incident to be an unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities, and are responding accordingly,” OpenAI said in a statement.

    The incident comes as cybersecurity specialists raise concerns about AI’s rapidly increasing abilities, including in response to warnings from Anthropic about its Mythos model, which has not been released to the general public.

    Here’s what smart people in tech and AI are saying about the breach.

    Aaron Levie, cofounder and CEO of Box, said the incident showed we're entering a new era of what's going to be possible with AI and that there are wild times ahead.If you were wondering how powerful AI is getting, Agents are now capable of escaping out of systems, finding their way to the internet, discovering zero day security vulnerabilities along the way, and then breaking into external systems - all in an attempt to complete their goal, he wrote on X.Ironically, the ultimate way we're going to defend against these new risks is equally by throwing compute (in the form of AI) at our code bases, networks, and other systems. You're going to want vastly more AI on the side of defense as you do on the side of offense.

    Aaron Levie, Box CEO and cofounderAaron Levie said the release was a “huge win” for companies building on AI.In an X post on Thursday, the Box CEO congratulated the Kimi team and said it was “truly wild” to see this level of performance from open models, pointing to Kimi K3’s third-place ranking on Artificial Analysis’ Intelligence Index behind only Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol.Levie argued that cheaper frontier-level intelligence directly expands what enterprises can do with AI. There’s a large backlog of workflows companies would love to automate, he said, held back only by token costs.Business Insider USA

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