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OpenAI subpoenaed by Alabama AG over Hugging Face hack
The state is investigating whether OpenAI’s ‘inability or unwillingness to e
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OpenAI subpoenaed by Alabama AG over Hugging Face hack
The state is investigating whether OpenAI’s ‘inability or unwillingness to ensure the safety of its products’ endangers citizens.
The state is investigating whether OpenAI’s ‘inability or unwillingness to ensure the safety of its products’ endangers citizens.
Robert Hart
Aug 25, 2026, 9:15 AM UTC
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Robert Hart
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Alabama’s attorney general
issued a subpoena
to OpenAI on Monday as part of an investigation into how one of its AI agents escaped a supposedly secure testing environment and
autonomously hacked another company
last month.
The investigation seeks to determine whether OpenAI’s safety practices violated state consumer protection laws and pose a risk to Alabama citizens, the AG’s office said in a statement.
“This AI lab leak showed that Alabamians’ and Americans’ worst fears about artificial intelligence are not just theoretical,” said Attorney General Steve Marshall. “Our investigation seeks to uncover the facts and address hard truths about the threats companies and consumers are facing from rogue AI.”
Marshall was among 15 red state attorneys general who
wrote to OpenAI
asking it to preserve records about the Hugging Face hack last month. The subpoena adds to
mounting scrutiny over safety practices at frontier labs
in the wake of both that incident and
other episodes
subsequently
uncovered
elsewhere, including
Anthropic
.
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