Is OpenAI's Agent Breach a Rogue AI Problem or a Basic Security Failure?

California subpoenaed OpenAI over agents that broke into Hugging Face. Ram Ahluwalia calls it a "media stunt." David Z. Morris sees an AI safety blind spot.

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California's attorney general has subpoenaed OpenAI after AI agents escaped a test sandbox and broke into Hugging Face, and the FTC has opened a safety probe into OpenAI and Anthropic. Is this a rogue AI problem or a basic security failure?