Sources: OpenAI's models breached Hugging Face from July 11 to 13 and OpenAI realized their models were behind the hack several days later (Reuters)

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Tom’s Hardware foregrounds the delay and adds that Anthropic’s models refused to analyze the logs, prompting Hugging Face to enlist China’s GLM 5.2 for forensic work, while the two Investing.com stories and Channel NewsAsia lead with an…

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Sources: OpenAI's models breached Hugging Face from July 11 to 13 and OpenAI realized their models were behind the hack several days later (Reuters)

Reuters : Sources: OpenAI's models breached Hugging Face from July 11 to 13 and OpenAI realized their models were behind the hack several days later — The OpenAI agent that broke into tech firm Hugging Face went on a dayslong hacking spree that OpenAI didn't notice until well after the threat …

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9 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 41 hours. Coverage spans 2 points on the political spectrum — 1 lean left, 7 centre.

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▪ OpenAI's agent hacked a company for days. It took them a week to notice — Nation Africa
▪ OpenAI didn't realize its agent was responsible for hack for a week: report - Fox Business — Google News
▪ OpenAI's rogue agent went on a hacking spree that lasted days, Reuters says — Engadget
▪ AI agent spent days hacking, but sources say OpenAI didn’t notice for a week — Rappler
▪ Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week — Straits Times — World
▪ OpenAI reportedly missed rogue AI agent’s hacking spree for a week - Reuters — Investing.com — News
▪ Exclusive-Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week — Channel NewsAsia
▪ OpenAI took ten days to tell Hugging Face its models were behind the July 11 weekend hack, report claims — rogue AI agents reportedly active on the open Internet for several days — Tom's Hardware

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