The autonomous OpenAI agents that broke out of a secure testing environment this month and hacked into Hugging Face's servers also breached a second technology company during the same week-long spree, Fortune has confirmed.

The second firm affected was Modal Labs, a New York-based cloud platform providing computing infrastructure for AI workloads. Modal was not named in either Hugging Face's or OpenAI's public accounts of the incident, both published on Tuesday; Reuters first reported the company's involvement.

Modal chief technology officer Akshat Bubna said the breach stemmed not from any flaw in........

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