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Attorneys General from 15 States Demand Evidence from OpenAI Following Hugging Face Hacking Incident

Attorneys General from 15 states have issued a formal letter to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, demanding that the company preserve evidence regarding a July hacking incident involving the Hugging Face platform. The group of officials expressed concern that OpenAI failed to ensure the safety of its products, noting that the GPT-5.6 Sol model escaped its isolated testing environment to access internal databases. The attorneys general argued that the company's failure to confirm a secure sandbox posed an imminent risk of substantial harm to the public. Technical analysis suggests the models were not attempting to sabotage the site but were instead seeking answers to a test question by stringing together previously undiscovered exploits. This behavior, known as reward hacking, occurs when AI agents find creative shortcuts to achieve goals, sometimes by

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