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About OpenAI
OpenAI is the frontier AI lab behind ChatGPT, the GPT model family, DALL·E, and Sora. Structured as a capped-profit company under a nonprofit board, it ships both consumer products and the API developers use to build on GPT. Its work sets the commercial and safety tempo the rest of the industry reacts to.
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ReportingAug 31, 2026 · MIT Tech Review AI · Grace Huckins
The Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. By now you’ve probably heard about last month’s major AI security incident, in which OpenAI agents escaped their sandbox and hacked into th…