August 5, 2026 / 11:50 PM EDT
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Tech giant Meta revealed Wednesday that one of its artificial intelligence models hacked another organization during testing, the third time in recent weeks that an AI model has improperly accessed a third-party company. In a statement provided to CBS News, Meta said that "a misconfiguration by Irregular, an independent testing company Meta uses, inadvertently allowed one of our models access to the internet during evaluation."In its statement, Meta did not name the AI model in question, but sources told the tech outlet The Information that it involved Meta's Muse Spark 1.1, according to Reuters. "The model subsequently exploited a security vulnerability in a third-party service, in a manner similar to previously-reported instances with other companies," Meta said Wednesday. "Meta learned of this when Irregular notified us, and we are currently investigating and will issue a full retrospective once we have all the facts."Last week, Anthropic said its artificial intelligence models hacked into three other organizations during testing. The revelation came just days after ChatGPT maker OpenAI disclosed its rogue models had also hacked another company.Anthropic, the San Francisco-based AI company behind Claude, posted on its website July 30 that it discovered the three incidents after reviewing more than 141,000 evaluation runs.It had launched a "large-scale" cybersecurity review which specifically looked for evidence whether its AI models were able to access the internet from within testing environments that should have been sealed off, in response to the OpenAI incident, Anthropic said.
