{"id":24044,"date":"2026-07-22T10:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T08:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/ai-agent-went-rogue-and-hacked-startup-by-itself-openai-reveals\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T10:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T08:37:16","slug":"ai-agent-went-rogue-and-hacked-startup-by-itself-openai-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/ai-agent-went-rogue-and-hacked-startup-by-itself-openai-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"AI agent went rogue and hacked startup by itself, OpenAI reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firm behind ChatGPT reveals agent powered by its models chose to attack Hugging Face database by itself<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI has revealed an autonomous AI agent powered by its technology went rogue during a test, accessed the open web and hacked a prominent startup by itself in an \u201cunprecedented incident\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The company behind ChatGPT said the startup Hugging Face had detected and contained the agent \u2013 an AI tool designed to carry out tasks without human assistance \u2013 which had entered its systems.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jul\/22\/openai-says-its-models-went-rogue-and-hacked-startup-in-unprecedented-incident\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ca434043b9f61d71fbaf4670b85060891b08e7ad\/800_416_4277_3424\/master\/4277.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=78fab8ccaa26b06cb8acf4f8ef68a5ad\" title=\"AI agent went rogue and hacked startup by itself, OpenAI reveals\" \/>Firm behind ChatGPT reveals agent powered by its models chose to attack Hugging Face database by itself<br \/>\nOpenAI has revealed an autonomous AI agent powered by its technology went rogue during a test, accessed the open web and hacked a prominent startup by itself in an \u201cunprecedented incident\u201d.<br \/>\nThe company behind ChatGPT said the startup Hugging Face had detected and contained the agent \u2013 an AI tool designed to carry out tasks without human assistance \u2013 which had entered its systems. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firm behind ChatGPT reveals agent powered by its models chose to attack Hugging Face database by itself OpenAI has revealed an autonomous AI agent powered by its technology went rogue during a test, accessed the open web and hacked a prominent startup by itself in an \u201cunprecedented incident\u201d. The company behind ChatGPT said the startup &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/ai-agent-went-rogue-and-hacked-startup-by-itself-openai-reveals\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI agent went rogue and hacked startup by itself, OpenAI reveals<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24044"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}