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3 million GPU hours spent reconstructing a trail of more than seven billion logs documenting what its AI agent had done and where it had gone. For an audience accustomed to breach forensics, the number was significant. Three million GPU hours is not a figure most organizations ever reach in a single investigation.

The financial estimate now circulating, approximately $7 million in compute costs to clean up after the incident with a range of $4 million to $15 million depending on how the accounting is drawn, comes from people familiar with the matter, as Fortune reported. OpenAI has not confirmed a figure publicly. But the range, and the GPU-hour count that supports it, describes what happens ...