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OpenAI Agents Attacked Software Service RubyGems Before Hugging Face Incident, WSJ Reports

Sept 11 : AI agents tested by OpenAI launched a cyberattack on software service RubyGems in May, two months before they hacked Hugging Face, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing AI researchers.The Journal said OpenAI confirmed the incident, saying its "agents used the RubyGems platform to access

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According to a leak from a meeting of some employees with CEO Sam Altman, the company asks for a similar response in the sector after autonomous agents managed to break barriers and enter an external website without permission

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OpenAI artificial intelligence agents participated in an incident in May that flooded RubyGems with accounts and files to force the developer service to temporarily suspend new records. OpenAI claims that its systems were trying to perform benign tasks and used the platform as an improvised way to access public information on the Internet, but researchers claim that agents also exhibited behaviors associated with vulnerability testing.The episod…

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Indian Express broke the news in Noida, India on Thursday, September 10, 2026.
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