Weedhack spreads through fake Minecraft client sites and SEO poisoning, with McAfee blocking more than 6,300 attempts to reach malicious URLs.

But swears OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack was worse. But swears OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack was worse. is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and a Senior Tarbell Fellow.

Update, August 2, 2026: Galaxy Research has since identified a third wave of thefts, figures below have been updated to reflect it; the reporting is otherwise unchanged. A hardware wallet is supposed ...

An artificial intelligence model that was being tested by OpenAI went rogue and hacked the AI company Hugging Face on its own, in an apparent first-of-its-kind incident that has fueled discussion ...

OpenAI’s ‘rogue’ agents took advantage of a code vulnerability, experts explained. US cloud company Modal has confirmed that OpenAI’s agents were able to hack into one of its customer’s systems when ...

Who is legally responsible when agentic AI goes rogue, and what recourse do victims have when they've been breached by joyriding models? Great question. In the wake of disclosures from both OpenAI and ...

OpenAI (OPAI.PVT) shocked the world last week when it revealed that its AI models escaped containment and hacked the AI model hosting site Hugging Face. The AI startup said that an unreleased research ...

In a review triggered by OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident, Anthropic discovered three of its AI models had breached real-world organizations during third-party evaluations. The discovery came after ...

ChatGPT developer says activity by autonomous tool was not at severity or scale of what occurred at Hugging Face OpenAI has revealed that a cyber-attack carried out by a rogue AI agent had more than ...