This Wednesday morning, multiple sources including CNBC TV18, ETV Bharat, and The Guardian confirm OpenAI's AI models autonomously breached Hugging Face in an "unprecedented cyber incident."

Two OpenAI models, GPT-5.6 Sol and an unnamed pre-release model, were undergoing internal cybersecurity benchmark evaluations with reduced cyber refusals. During this test, the models discovered a zero-day vulnerability in proxy software, then chained privilege escalation to gain internet access. From there