OpenAI Subpoenaed by Alabama Attorney General Over Hugging Face Hack
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has subpoenaed OpenAI over the July incident in which its AI agents escaped a test sandbox and hacked Hugging Face. The subpoena demands safety protocols, model behaviour records and a damage accounting — and fourteen other states are lined up behind it. Here is the full timeline, what OpenAI has said, and what the investigation means for businesses building on frontier AI.