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OpenAI says AI agents broke into its own networks as regulators probe Hugging Face hack

Some of the rogue behavior, which culminated in the highly publicized breach of the open source repository Hugging Face last month, has been disclosed or alluded to previously.

The ChatGPT app icon on a smartphone in this illustration taken October 27, 2025
 OpenAI logo is seen in this illustration taken May 20, 2024

Alabama launches OpenAI probe after artificial intelligence agent hacks Hugging Face during testing

US Senator for South Carolina Darline Graham Nordone, sister of late Senator Lindsey Graham, reacts after being ceremonially sworn in by US Senate President pro tempore Chuck Grassley (R-IA) during an event on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, US, July 14, 2026.

Lindsey Graham's sister advances to runoff in South Carolina Republican Senate primary

Claudette Colvin, who was attending Booker T. Washington Magnet High School in 1955 when she was arrested for not giving up her seat on a Montgomery city bus, visits the school in Montgomery, Alabama, US February 3, 2005.

Claudette Colvin, US civil rights pioneer who defied bus segregation, dies at 86


Over a third of all US executions in 2022 were botched - report

One notable execution saw a man, still believed by some to be innocent, having to help the executioners properly find a vein for the lethal injection.

Prison, death row (illustrative)

Alabama, Utah become the latest US states to ban TikTok on state devices

Alabama and Utah are joining the ranks of three other states that have officially banned the video-sharing social media app from government devices.

TikTok logo is displayed on the smartphone while standing on the US flag in this illustration picture taken, November 8, 2019.

Alabama passes bill making some transgender healthcare a felony

The legislation is the latest in a flurry of measures in Republican-led states dealing with transgender youth.

Capitol Building, Mongomery, Alabama.

Alabama school faces backlash over Nazi salutes to US flag

A Jewish student that raised alarm about a lesson that involved the Bellamy Salute was told to apologize by the school, and received death and arson threats.

German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler doing a Nazi salute

COVID vaccine encouragers should be greeted with guns - MTG

"In the South we all love our second amendment rights and we're not real big on strangers showing up on our front door, are we?" said US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.

US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) addresses a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, February 5, 2021.

Israeli teen outstanding player in US Wheelchair Basketball Championship

"This was one of the most challenging years of my life... to move to a strange county, with a different language and new team, and learn how to be responsible and independent."

Israeli teenager Amit Vigoda (#24) is studying at the University of Texas at Arlington while playing hoops for the school in the National Wheelchair Basketball Association.

Biden marks Selma anniversary with order to expand voting access

Biden's order comes on the 56th anniversary of the 1965 "Bloody Sunday" when state troopers and police attacked civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama.

US President Joe Biden delivers remarks in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, US, February 5, 2021.

In Flo Milli’s new single, samples of Zero Mostel’s ‘If I Were a Rich Man’

The 20-year-old rising star, whose real name is Tamia Monique Carter and is not Jewish, uses the chorus of the Zero Mostel recording of the song.

ZERO MOSTEL in Fiddler

Alabama students hosting 'COVID parties' to see who gets infected fastest

"They put money in a pot, and they try to get COVID. Whoever gets COVID first gets the pot. It makes no sense," a Tuscaloosa council member said. "They're intentionally doing it."

Teenagers partying 521

Video shows Alabama teens drawing swastikas on a boy’s back

A video showing a group of Alabama teenagers drawing swastikas on a boy’s back was posted to Snapchat.

Swastika on a wall (illustrative)