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By Riley Griffin and Rachel Metz
August 5, 2026 at 7:04 PM EDT
Updated on August 5, 2026 at 8:04 PM EDT
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Meta Platforms Inc. said one of its artificial intelligence models accessed the internet and hacked into an outside service’s systems during cybersecurity testing, following other recent incidents across the AI industry that have escalated concerns about companies’ control over their technology.
Meta’s model, the recently released Muse Spark 1.1, breached the systems of an undisclosed third-party service, the company said Wednesday. The AI model had access to the internet because of an error in the setup testing environment, which Meta was working on with cybersecurity vendor Irregular.
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