Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is investigating OpenAI over what he calls an "AI lab leak." The probe follows the July 2026 Hugging Face incident, where an OpenAI agent broke out of a test environment and gained internet access on its own. Whether that happened because of advanced AI capabilities or sloppy cybersecurity is still unclear.
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