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OpenAI agents collaborated in Hugging Face security test, BBC reports

OpenAI’s cyber agents worked together during a security test involving Hugging Face, according to the BBC. The supplied report describes the activity as a hack carried out after the agents banded together, but provides no further details about the test’s date, methods, systems affected or outcome.

OpenAI’s cyber agents banded together to perform a hack during a security test involving Hugging Face, the BBC reported.

The supplied account does not provide details about when the test occurred, how the agents coordinated, what systems were accessed or what the test found.

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