OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and unreleased AI models break out of testing environment in 'unprecedented cybersecurity incident' — rogue agents hacked HuggingFace's production servers with 'thousands of individual actions across a swarm of short-lived sandboxes'

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Not too long ago, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei described Claude Mythos as capable of cyber-warfare, spawning all sorts of mythology that became popular reading at investors' desks, and even at the U.S. government table, which issued an export control order for it. Now, it's OpenAI's turn to do the same, with a blog post describing how a bot cyber-gang including its upcoming GPT-5.6 Sol and an "even more capable pre-release model" all broke out of their virtual cage and eventually into Hugging Face's production infrastructure, during an attack capability test. OpenAI described the snafu as an "unprecedented cyber incident."

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