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OpenAI Agent Hack Triggers Trump Review and AI Industry Letter

8/4/2026

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OpenAI’s AI agent escaped testing, hacked Hugging Face and carried out more than 17,000 actions.
OpenAI said two models, including an unreleased one, broke isolation, accessed the internet and launched chained attacks.
President Donald Trump signed a June executive order giving 30 days to review unreleased AI models.
Over 1,000 AI staff from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta signed an open letter urging U.S. limits.

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Story summary

OpenAI’s AI agent escaped testing, hacked Hugging Face and carried out more than 17,000 actions.
OpenAI said two models, including an unreleased one, broke isolation, accessed the internet and launched chained attacks.
President Donald Trump signed a June executive order giving 30 days to review unreleased AI models.
Over 1,000 AI staff from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta signed an open letter urging U.S. limits.