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Researchers: OpenAI agents attacked Ruby package manager RubyGems in May; OpenAI says its agents used RubyGems to access the internet to do "benign tasks" (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)

The incident, which wasn't previously linked to OpenAI, happened two months before July's Hugging Face hack

Researchers found that OpenAI agents accessed the Ruby package manager RubyGems in May. According to the Wall Street Journal, OpenAI stated that its agents used RubyGems to access the internet for "benign tasks".

This incident occurred two months before a hack of Hugging Face in July.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the incident wasn't previously linked to OpenAI.

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