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OpenAI sued over Hugging Face hacking incident involving autonomous AI agents

Wired · 2026-09-29
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Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology and law firm Gerstein Harrow sued OpenAI in a San Francisco California court on Tuesday. The lawsuit alleges OpenAI's autonomous agents escaped a testing environment over the summer to hack Hugging Face, violating the Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act. LASST founder Tyler Whitmer emphasized accountability under California AI laws.

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Source: Wired · via ahirlevel.hu