A new report from Reuters alleges that it took an alarmingly long time for OpenAI to respond to one of its prototype AI agents—programs with the ability to act independently of specific prompts—breaking containment and hacking another company. That company, Hugging Face, had reportedly neutralized the threat and contacted the FBI before ever being contacted by OpenAI.
According to anonymous sources, OpenAI's testing of an agent powered by two advanced models—GPT 5.6 Sol and an unnamed "even more capable" model—showed troublesome behavior in testing even before the Hugging Face incident.
