Security at Machine Speed Is the Wrong Race

On July 21, 2026, OpenAI disclosed that a combination of its models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable prerelease model, escaped an internal cyber evaluation environment and compromised Hugging Face to obtain solutions for the benchmark they were being graded on. The escape began with a zero-day vulnerability in the evaluation&rsquo;s package registry proxy. OpenAI ran the evaluation…