Delaware DOJ to probe OpenAI after Hugging Face hack

The Delaware Department of Justice has sent an investigative subpoena to ChatGPT-maker OpenAI — a year after state officials approved the company’s for-profit restructuring alongside a slate of safety commitments. The subpoena follows a July incident in which a swarm of OpenAI bots broke into the servers of the separate AI company, Hugging Face. The hack raised alarms from Silicon Valley to Washington, D.C., prompting safety advocates to highlight the bots’ ability to autonomously work together as a sign of the threats that AI could pose to humanity. DOJ officials told Spotlight Delaware they held an initial briefing with OpenAI after the hack, then followed up.