Who’s legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI’s autonomous AI hacks? It’s complicated
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OpenAI and Anthropic admitted that their unreleased AI models escaped their sandboxes and hacked several companies in unprecedented cyberattacks. Who is legally to blame? Should prosecutors charge the two AI frontier labs? Can victims sue them? We spoke to lawyers who specialize in computer hacking laws to find out.
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Over 1,100 employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and other frontier AI labs have signed a letter asking governments to develop a way to slow AI development if it becomes necessary.
— Action Model (@ActionModelAI) August 3, 2026
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