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Scott Bessent: OpenAI Management to Blame for 'Unprecedented' Hack, Not AI Agents

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday that OpenAI's management, not the AI systems it built, is responsible for a swarm of its AI agents hacking the Hugging Face platform in a July attack labeled "unprecedented" at the time. Bessent also stated that AI giants should not re.

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Brimstone Report is tracking this as a curated politics brief. The source report from Breitbart says: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday that OpenAI's management, not the AI systems it built, is responsible for a swarm of its AI agents hacking the Hugging Face platform in a July attack labeled "unprecedented" at the time. Bessent also stated that AI giants should not re.

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  • Primary source: Breitbart
  • Published: Sep 22, 2026, 3:45 PM UTC
  • Coverage area: Politics
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