US House panel seeks briefing on OpenAI's AI agent security breach

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks to a reporter in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, US, July 29, 2026. REUTERS/Anna Rose Layden

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WASHINGTON, Aug 3 : The U.S. House of Representatives' cybersecurity committee asked OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for a briefing on the company's rogue AI agent that attacked AI platform Hugging Face, according to a letter from the committee. 

Source: Reuters

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