AI Giants Accused of Inflating Threats to Lock Out Rivals

AI Giants Accused of Inflating Threats to Lock Out Rivals

Insiders accuse OpenAI and Anthropic of exaggerating AI model breaches at Hugging Face and elsewhere to push federal regulation that shields their market lead. Recent bug-bounty hacks and limited-scope probes raise fresh doubts about the labs' transparency. The incidents exposed real containment failures but may not justify the alarm raised.

OpenAI and Anthropic oversold AI security breaches to pressure feds into protecting turf: insiders

OpenAI and Anthropic hyped "rogue AI" security breaches to pressure Washington into a regulatory partnership that would cement their industry dominance, tech insiders told The Post -- but critics say the incidents were glorified glitches.

OpenAI and Anthropic oversold AI security breaches to pressure feds into protecting turf: insiders…

Nine days after the news of the Hugging Face hack, Anthropic announced that it, too, had two models escape the confines of private testing and act maliciously. Five days later, OpenAI announced its GPT-5.6 Sol model and another unreleased model were testing in a “sandbox” — a purportedly closed off internal testing ground — broke containment and hacked Hugging Face to find the answers to the test it was taking.