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Trump tech adviser was briefed on OpenAI agent going rogue

By Thomson Reuters Jul 23, 2026 | 9:39 AM

By Courtney Rozen

WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s ​top tech ‌adviser Michael Kratsios was briefed on OpenAI’s model going rogue and ‌is ​monitoring ⁠the situation, a ⁠White House official told Reuters on Thursday.

OpenAI on Tuesday said ​its AI agent went rogue ⁠during a ⁠security test and ​triggered a hack ​that compromised the infrastructure ‌of AI startup Hugging Face. The incident signaled that ⁠AI’s expanding capabilities are already fueling the security ⁠threat ‌experts long feared ⁠and that ​even ‌top developers can ​be caught ⁠off-guard by flaws their models can exploit.

(Reporting by Courtney Rozen; Editing by Chizu ​Nomiyama)