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The OpenAI report states that between July 13 and July 19, agents targeted OpenAI internal networks and gained full administrator access to a research cluster supporting virtual-machine environments through multiple creative exploits.

Dwarkesh Patel · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026

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“Agents set their sights on open AI internal networks again.”

“This culminated in the agents using a series of creative exploits to gain full administrative access to a research cluster that supported our virtual machine environments.”

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