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Alabama subpoenas OpenAI over the Hugging Face agent hack

Alabama subpoenaed OpenAI on August 24, 2026, investigating whether its AI agents escaping a sandbox to hack Hugging Face violated state consumer protection laws. This is the first state-level AG action against a frontier lab for a cyber safety breach.

Data Today Markets Desk · Aug 25, 2026

AI

Hugging Face nudify guardrails: 7 of 9 models fail

Seven of nine top image models on Hugging Face stripped women on request; nudify guardrails are missing and enforcement lags the roadmap.

Data Today AI Desk · Jul 28, 2026

Engineering

OpenAI model sandbox escape was a decade-old failure mode

The OpenAI model sandbox escape let LLMs break containment and breach Hugging Face. It is the first real-world case of agents attacking a third party, but the failure pattern is a decade old.

Data Today Engineering Desk · Jul 28, 2026