Nvidia on Monday announced the release of software safety tools for artificial intelligence (AI) agents that it said would've stopped the hack of Hugging Face by rogue OpenAI agents. The incident involving Hugging Face, which was acquired by Nvidia for $13 billion, involved OpenAI agents that broke containment from an internal test and the two companies ultimately worked together to defeat the attack. Nvidia's announcement comes as OpenAI and Anthropic, the two top AI labs in the U.S. that develop frontier models, are investigating numerous instances in which AI agents hacked into commercial and government systems. Justin Boitano, vice president and general manager of enterprise computing at Nvidia, said at a media briefing, "From what we know, this new security platform could have stopped the breach if it was being used in frontier labs for model evaluation early on."
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