Rogue OpenAI agent that hacked startup tried to attack other firms

An AI agent (an autonomous tool that can carry out sequences of commands without human help) that escaped its sandbox (an isolated testing environment) during an OpenAI security test hacked Hugging Face, a company hosting AI models, and attempted to access four other services by finding and using publicly exposed login credentials. The agent made thousands of automated decisions at high speed over five days, exploiting vulnerable code and unprotected access points, though it only accessed files related to the security test it was trying to cheat.