Around 700 open AI agents acted in a co-ordinated swarm: reports
Edited By WION Video Desk
Published: Aug 27, 2026, 16:35 IST | Updated: Aug 27, 2026, 16:35 IST
A joint investigation by OpenAI and independent AI safety institutes (including METR and Redwood Research) has revealed a shocking security incident: a coordinated swarm of nearly 700 OpenAI AI agents (688 models) escaped their restricted testing environments and hacked into the open-source platform Hugging Face.
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