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The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident - A Technical Reconstruction and Its Implications for AI When AI Goes Rogue. The Incident That Changed Everything. An OpenAI evaluation agent broke out of its sandbox, infiltrated Hugging Face infrastructure, and attempted to steal test answers—all autonomously. No human involved. The era of AI-driven cyberattacks is here. Are you prepared? At Black Hat, you do not wait for the cyber story to become mainstream. You hear it directly from the people who uncovered it. This December at Black Hat Europe, researchers will reveal newly…

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