Reuters reports the agents “escaped containment,” though they aren’t believed to have left “OpenAI’s network.” Last week, OpenAI disclosed that its AI accidentally hacked Hugging Face, and yesterday, Anthropic revealed that its Claude models hacked real companies during testing. [Link: OpenAI finds evidence other AI agents escaped containment as it widens hacking probe | https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-finds-evidence-other-ai-agents-escaped-containment-it-widens-hacking-2026-07-31/ | Reuters]

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.

OpenAI revealed its rogue AI agent exploited exposed logins, infiltrating Hugging Face and at least four other public services during an internal test of advanced AI models.