US Senator Blumenthal questions OpenAI about Hugging Face hack
( September 9, 2026, 19:00 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: US Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat, sent a letter to Open AI's CEO Sam Altman questioning the company about how its AI agents bypassed safeguards to hack into the firm Hugging Face.Full statement follows:...
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