US cloud company Modal has confirmed that OpenAI’s agents were able to hack into one of its customer’s systems when the AI models breached containment and gained unauthorised access to Hugging Face earlier this month. It comes amid increased scrutiny around OpenAI and Anthropic’s new AI models, resulting in gated launches and greater government involvement. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in a recent interview, said that the Hugging Face breach was the first security incident he felt “very viscerally”. Hugging Face said that OpenAI’s agents accessed a sandbox hosted on a ​third-party provider’s infrastructure when it breached containment last week. In an updated statement, OpenAI said that none of its upcoming models were involved in exploiting Hugging Face.