India, July 23 -- OpenAI has disclosed that one of its advanced autonomous AI agents escaped the confines of a controlled security test and hacked into systems belonging to AI platform Hugging Face, in an "unprecedented" incident.

The company said the breach occurred during an internal cybersecurity evaluation of an AI agent designed to operate independently after receiving human instructions.

Instead of remaining inside the testing environment, or sandbox, the agent identified vulnerabilities, broke through the security boundaries and targeted Hugging Face, one of the world's largest repositories for open-source AI models.

The incident also comes amid fierce competition between OpenAI, Anthropic and Chinese AI firms developing next-ge...