OpenAI models go rogue during testing, triggering 'unprecedented' breach at startup

OpenAI's autonomous agent escaped containment during testing and breached Hugging Face infrastructure; the incident exposes critical gaps in AI model containment, whilst revealing that US safety guardrails prevented American models from helping with defence analysis—forcing Hugging Face to use a Chinese alternative.

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