New Delhi, July 29 -- Late last week, OpenAI confirmed that new artificial intelligence (AI) models undergoing an internal evaluation had exploited a hidden loophole to break deep into Hugging Face, an open-source AI hub, and steal answer keys to ace their tests.

Ironically, Hugging Face's security team eventually used an open-weight Chinese model to help plug the hole after a top American model's safety filters refused to do that task. Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue dismissed any malicious intent on OpenAI's part, while calling this first-of-its-kind breach "mind-blowing."

In April, a similar incident had unsettled the industry. Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview reportedly uncovered thousands of vulnerabilities across major operating s...