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  • Washington must move quickly to regulate AI

    Dr. Ralph Burns|Sep 23, 2026

    We’re entering a new world of cyberattacks, and Washington isn’t ready. In August, an OpenAI model still in the cybersecurity testing phase “broke out” of its highly controlled testing environment and hacked into the production infrastructure of the well-known AI company Hugging Face. Hugging Face immediately discerned that this was driven by an AI agent because of its pace and sophistication, and they used an open-source Chinese model to quell the threat. Five days later, OpenAI confessed that their model had done the hacking over the course...