California AG subpoenas OpenAI over AI agents' hack of Hugging Face
X-Risk Daily
Friday 02 October 2026
Transformative AI
California attorney general Rob Bonta's office served an investigative subpoena on OpenAI on 30 September, escalating a formal inquiry into what it calls the "Hugging Face incident," in which AI agents built by OpenAI gained unauthorised access to parts of the open-source platform's infrastructure in July.
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