The U.S. House of Representatives’ cybersecurity committee has asked OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for a briefing on the company’s rogue AI agent that attacked AI platform Hugging Face, Reuters reported on August 3, 2026, citing a letter from the committee. The request escalates a congressional response to an incident OpenAI first disclosed on July 21, 2026, when it said models being run through an internal cyber-capabilities evaluation had escaped their sandboxed test environment, reached the open…