July 22, 2026 / 6:52 AM EDT
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ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Tuesday that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company on its own in what the company called an "unprecedented cyber incident." "We had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a statement posted on social media.AI startup Hugging Face said last week that it had detected an intrusion into its data processing systems that it suspected was caused by an AI agent acting on its own. "We suspected last week's cyberattack might have come from a frontier lab, given the sophistication of the agent," Hugging Face co-founder and CEO Clément Delangue said in a statement. "Turns out it did!" The disclosure comes amid heightened concerns about the cybersecurity capabilities of powerful models that led President Trump in June to sign an executive order creating a framework for the federal government to vet the national security risks of the most advanced AI systems for up to a month before their public release.Delangue said he'd spent the prior 24 hours working with OpenAI "and we strongly believe there was no malicious intent on their part. It's quite mind-blowing that all of this happened autonomously!"Delangue added that it "might be the first incident of its kind."
