WASHINGTON: OpenAI has discovered other instances in which autonomous agents have escaped containment as the company expands its investigation of the hacking incident at tech firm Hugging Face that drew global attention this month, two people familiar with the matter said Friday. The new breakouts were uncovered during the company’s publicly announced investigation into how one of its agents escaped what was meant to be a contained testing environment this month, the two people said, and OpenAI is now looking into those instances as well.

The latest hack comes after an autonomous agent escaped a controlled test and accessed AI firm Hugging Face’s servers.

An OpenAI agent that escaped its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face also compromised an account at Modal Labs, the cloud firm’s CTO has confirmed.