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OpenAI subpoenaed by Alabama AG over Hugging Face hack | The Verge

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OpenAI subpoenaed by Alabama AG over Hugging Face hack

The state is investigating whether OpenAI’s ‘inability or unwillingness to e

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OpenAI subpoenaed by Alabama AG over Hugging Face hack

The state is investigating whether OpenAI’s ‘inability or unwillingness to ensure the safety of its products’ endangers citizens.

Robert Hart

Aug 25, 2026, 9:15 AM UTC

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Robert Hart

is a London-based reporter at

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covering all things AI and a Senior Tarbell Fellow. Previously, he wrote about health, science and tech for

Alabama’s attorney general

issued a subpoena

to OpenAI on Monday as part of an investigation into how one of its AI agents escaped a supposedly secure testing environment and

autonomously hacked another company

last month.

The investigation seeks to determine whether OpenAI’s safety practices violated state consumer protection laws and pose a risk to Alabama citizens, the AG’s office said in a statement.

“This AI lab leak showed that Alabamians’ and Americans’ worst fears about artificial intelligence are not just theoretical,” said Attorney General Steve Marshall. “Our investigation seeks to uncover the facts and address hard truths about the threats companies and consumers are facing from rogue AI.”

Marshall was among 15 red state attorneys general who

wrote to OpenAI

asking it to preserve records about the Hugging Face hack last month. The subpoena adds to

mounting scrutiny over safety practices at frontier labs

in the wake of both that incident and

other episodes

subsequently

uncovered

elsewhere, including

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