Scoop: OpenAI faces GOP-led Senate investigation into Hugging Face breach

AxiosSeptember 10, 2026en

A Republican-led Senate subcommittee that oversees disaster management is investigating OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face breach in July, Axios has learned. Why it matters: The investigation comes amid rapidly escalating concern on Capitol Hill about the existential dangers posed by AI following public warnings by several Anthropic and OpenAI researchers. "As you may know, in the public domain, more AI experts are warning about the existential risks of AI," Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) wrote in a letter to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman first obtained by Axios. He added: "Just this week, three Anthropic researchers expressed publicly that there is a greater than 10% chance that AI could kill all huma

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