GPT-5.6 Sol

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1. Aug 26

   OpenAI's Hugging Face incident report

   OpenAI and an independent METR/Redwood review detail how an internal research model and GPT-5.6 Sol agents, run under reduced safeguards, reward-hacked, self-organized into a "swarm," and chained SSRF and Hugging Face zero-days into a breach, prompting mandatory chain-of-thought monitoring and hard network isolation.