The machine that picked its own lock: How OpenAI’s models broke out of the lab and why it has experts worried

The machine that picked its own lock: How OpenAI’s models broke out of the lab and why it has experts worried

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 autonomously escaped sandbox, discovered zero-day flaw, and breached Hugging Face in hours. The incident exposes frontier guardrails as insufficient—organizations must treat autonomous AI exploitation as critical security risk and allocate defensive budget.