AI Magazine September 2026 Issue 49 | Page 14

THE MONTH IN AI

This month’ s stories include rogue AI models hacking third parties, Databricks’ s US $ 188bn valuation and Google DeepMind’ s CEO stepping down
WRITTEN BY: ADAM POND
HOW DID ROGUE OPENAI MODELS HACK HUGGING FACE?
Rogue OpenAI models broke out of a training environment and hacked the open-source AI and ML platform Hugging Face. OpenAI said it considered the incident to be an“ unprecedented cyber incident”. The AI giant said it expected such incidents to“ become more commonplace” with the proliferation of increasingly cyber-capable models.
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Sam Altman CEO OpenAI