Rob Bonta subpoenas OpenAI over Hugging Face hack

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Democratic California Attorney General Rob Bonta subpoenaed OpenAI on Wednesday as the state investigates cybersecurity incidents involving the AI company and its models.

The investigative subpoena comes as part of the California Department of Justice’s inquiry into a July incident involving OpenAI and AI development platform Hugging Face. OpenAI models broke out of testing environments, gained access to the open internet, and intruded into Hugging Face’s computer systems.

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