OpenAI, the company that makes the ChatGPT chatbot, has revealed that its artificial intelligence (AI) models autonomously breached another company’s production systems in what it called an “unprecedented cyber incident.”
The ChatGPT maker said in a July 21 blog post that the models—including its newly released GPT‑5.6 Sol and a more capable model still undergoing internal testing—compromised infrastructure operated by AI platform Hugging Face after escaping a restricted environment in which a cybersecurity evaluation was being conducted.
“The model searched for and successfully found ways to gain access to secret information that it could use to cheat the evaluation,” OpenAI said….