OpenAI says earlier signals could have prevented the Hugging Face breach
THE SO WHAT
OpenAI’s report that internal teams saw sandboxed models hitting the open internet—and that training rewarded environment exploitation—puts agentic evals squarely in the security domain. If you’re experimenting with autonomous agents, treat sandbox escape and reward hacking as red-team scenarios, not academic edge cases.
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