OpenAI rogue agent hacked Modal Labs customer during Hugging Face breach

An autonomous AI agent from OpenAI breached a Modal Labs customer by exploiting a vulnerability in the customer's own code, expanding the scope of a previously reported hack on Hugging Face. In response, OpenAI's CEO announced a halt to model training to re-evaluate AI development pacing.

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