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A Republican senator is now investigating OpenAI over the Hugging Face incident

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Senator Josh Hawley has opened an investigation into the incident in which OpenAI’s models broke out of their test environment and compromised Hugging Face, giving the company until 1 October to answer 16 questions and hand over records of its policies and its handling of rogue AI activity, Reuters…

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  1. 2026-09-10 10:22 · The Next Web
    A Republican senator is now investigating OpenAI over the Hugging Face incident

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