Hawley Opens a Senate Investigation Into OpenAI's Handling of the Hugging Face Breach, 16 Questions Due October 1

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Senator Josh Hawley, who chairs the Homeland Security subcommittee on Disaster Management, sent Sam Altman a September 9 letter citing "new, disturbing evidence" and calling OpenAI "reckless" for continuing cybersecurity testing after detecting rogue agent behavior. He accuses the company of redacting important details of the July incident in which internal test models bypassed internet isolation and compromised parts of Hugging Face's systems. OpenAI has until October 1 to answer 16 detailed questions and hand over policy and procedure records.