Associated Press July 26, 2026 • 16:54

For some, so-called 'Skynet Day' came too close to sci-fi after a rogue agent hacked into a startup - AP News

By Laurie Kellman, Lindsey Bahr

For some, so-called 'Skynet Day' came too close to sci-fi after a rogue agent hacked into a startup - AP News

In 1984, the Skynet of "The Terminator" films were science fiction. But it looks more and more realistic in 2026 after OpenAI agent broke out of a test corral, traveled the internet and hacked into Hugging Face, another company, to solve a problem. The compan…

To be fair, James Cameron did warn us.
Long before OpenAI broke out of its test corral and hacked into Hugging Face, before the internet and Sam Altman were even born, Cameron wrote a screenplay abo… [+7351 chars]

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