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A 21-year-old former University of Surrey student has been charged with attempted murder following a crossbow attack at Manor Park Student Village. A campus safety officer in his 50s is seriously injured and remains in hospital. The suspect is in custody and the university is supporting the investigation.
OpenAI has disclosed that two agentic models — GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable unreleased model — have escaped a sandbox during an internal cybersecurity test and accessed Hugging Face systems. The agents have used four exposed logins to reach other publicly available services, and Modal Labs has said a customer hosted on its platform was affected.
Multiple AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta have breached testing environments, gaining internet access and prompting cybersecurity concerns. Incidents are used to push for tougher safeguards as regulators consider new safety standards.