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(AP Photo\/Julia Demaree Nikhinson,File)\"><\/div><figcaption>OpenAI&#8217;s models hacked the technology of two companies last week ahead of the White House meeting [File: Julia Demaree Nikhinson\/AP]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-info m--t-20 m--desktop-b-30 m--b-mobile-20\">\n<div class=\"byline byline--single-avatar\">\n<div class=\"avatars-container\"><a class=\"avatar\" aria-hidden=\"true\" href=\"\/author\/andy_hirschfeld_200917192526112\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-07-at-6_58_15-PM-copy-1757343018.jpg?resize=96%2C96&amp;quality=80\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"byline-content\">\n<div class=\"contributors-list contributors-list--byline\"><span class=\"contributors-list__by-prefix\">By <\/span><a href=\"\/author\/andy_hirschfeld_200917192526112\">Andy Hirschfeld<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-dates\">\n<div class=\"date-simple\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 4 Aug 2026<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">4 Aug 2026<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wysiwyg wysiwyg--all-content\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<p>The administration of United States President Donald Trump is set to meet with the country\u2019s top artificial intelligence companies to discuss allowing the federal government more safety tests for its most advanced models amid two high-profile hackings confirmed by Anthropic and OpenAI.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting is set to take place on Tuesday, a White House official told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<section class=\"more-on\">\n<h2 class=\"more-on__heading\">Recommended Stories<!-- --> <\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list of 4 items<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"more-on__list\">\n<li class=\"more-on__article\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list 1 of 4<\/span><a class=\"more-on__link\" href=\"\/economy\/2026\/8\/3\/petrol-prices-strain-us-households-as-oil-giants-chevron-exxon-profits-soar\">Petrol prices strain US households as oil giants Chevron, Exxon profits soar<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"more-on__article\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list 2 of 4<\/span><a class=\"more-on__link\" href=\"\/news\/2026\/8\/4\/trump-administration-sued-by-25-states-over-new-tariffs-on-trading-partners\">Trump administration sued by 25 states over new tariffs on trading partners<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"more-on__article\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list 3 of 4<\/span><a class=\"more-on__link\" href=\"\/economy\/2026\/8\/4\/us-stocks-near-record-high-oil-falls-as-trump-claims-iran-talks-underway\">US stocks near record high, oil falls as Trump claims Iran talks under way<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"more-on__article\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list 4 of 4<\/span><a class=\"more-on__link\" href=\"\/news\/2026\/8\/4\/tech-giant-palantir-posts-otherworldly-growth-despite-criticism-over-gaza\">Tech giant Palantir posts \u2018otherworldly\u2019 growth despite criticism over Gaza<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>The meeting is part of a June 2 executive order that called for a new voluntary framework that would allow the federal government to have early access to advanced models for up to 30 days before public release, it said.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting is underscored by developments last week when OpenAI tools were responsible for a breach at a tech company, Hugging Face, and at the client of another,<a href=\"\/news\/2026\/7\/29\/openais-rogue-agent-hacked-an-account-at-a-second-technology-firm-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Modal Labs.<\/a> The tools\u2019 hacking incidents were operating outside of the purview of what they were designed to do.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:block;position:relative;min-width:0px;max-width:770px\">\n<\/div>\n<p>OpenAI did not respond to Al Jazeera\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>This comes amid claims by CEO Sam Altman on a podcast, following the Hugging Face attack, that the technology has reached \u201cthe singularity\u201d, when AI surpasses human intelligence and becomes harder to control. He had previously said this would not be reached by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Altman met with other lawmakers on Capitol Hill, including Bernie Moreno, a Republican from Ohio, and Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock.<\/p>\n<p>Altman also visited the White House at the time to discuss the tests.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, 15 state attorneys general, all Republicans, including those from Florida, Iowa and Kansas, called on OpenAI to maintain documents on how its AI system escaped containment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"container--ads in-article-ads\">\n<div class=\"ads\"><span class=\"ads__title\"> Advertisement <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a letter to Altman on Monday, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird wrote: \u201cOpenAI conducted that testing in what should have been an isolated environment, with no possibility that the agent could access the Internet. Within that purportedly isolated environment, OpenAI allowed the agent to operate \u2018without production classifiers used to prevent models from pursuing high-risk cyber activity,\u2019 which one commentator summarised as \u2018a lot of words for \u201cno guardrails,\u201d essentially.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic also announced last week that <a href=\"\/news\/2026\/7\/31\/after-openai-disclosure-anthropic-claude-hacked-outside-systems\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it had identified <\/a>three separate incidents in which its model, Claude, was able to reach the internet and gain unauthorised access to an undisclosed set of organisations.<\/p>\n<p>The Dario Amodei-led AI giant said that the hacking incidents occurred in a \u201cthird-party evaluation environment\u201d, according to a release from the company.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anthropic has been in the crosshairs of the White House over its efforts to restrict the government\u2019s use of its technology for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:block;position:relative;min-width:0px;max-width:770px\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Anthropic did not respond to Al Jazeera\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Google is expected to be in attendance, according to reporting by the tech outlet The Information. Google did not respond to Al Jazeera\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram parent company Meta were also invited, according to reporting by the Reuters news agency. The White House did not specifically say the Mark Zuckerberg-led tech giant would be in attendance. Meta did not respond to Al Jazeera\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>On Wall Street, Meta\u2019s stock is tumbling in midday trading. It is down by 0.2 percent since the market opened. Google parent company Alphabet, on the other hand, is in positive territory. It is up 1.1 percent. Anthropic and OpenAI are not publicly traded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ListenListen (3 mins) Save Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share facebookxwhatsapp-strokecopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo OpenAI&#8217;s models hacked the technology of two companies last week ahead of the White House meeting [File: Julia Demaree Nikhinson\/AP] By Andy Hirschfeld Published On 4 Aug 20264 Aug 2026 The administration of United States President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>White House to meet AI firms on advanced model safety - 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