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Meta AI breaches external firm during security testing sandbox error

NPR | By Huo Jingnan,
Scott Simon
Published August 8, 2026 at 5:43 AM MDT

Meta announced one of its models had hacked another company during a security test. It becomes the third company to announced such a security breach.

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