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Beatrice Nolan

OpenAI’s runaway AI agents also breached a customer at a second tech company in a weeklong spree

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The autonomous OpenAI agents that broke out of a secure testing environment this month and hacked into Hugging Face’s servers also breached a second technology company during a weeklong spree, Fortune has confirmed.

The second company affected was Modal Labs, a New York–based cloud platform that provides computing infrastructure for AI workloads. Modal was not named in Hugging Face’s or OpenAI’s recent account of the incident, both published on Tuesday. The company’s involvement was first reported by Reuters.

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