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Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms
Published 27 July 2026 ¡ tech
Microsoft is introducing new AI tools designed to help customers continuously streamline and automate the process of identifying and reducing their exposure to security risks
Microsoft is introducing new AI tools designed to help customers continuously streamline and automate the process of identifying and reducing their exposure to security risks. The new tools come less than a week after OpenAI lost control of two of its security models when they infiltrated the servers of startup Hugging Face.
The hack, Hugging Face added, involved âa swarm of tens of thousands of automated actionsâ that stole internal Hugging Face credentials. The OpenAI models achieved this feat by exploiting a zero-day flaw in Hugging Faceâs data-processing pipeline to run malicious code that escalated the modelsâ access to the companyâs high-value cloud and server clusters.
Microsoftâs announcements on Monday made no reference to the event, which OpenAI said was âunprecedented.â The company also didnât say what would prevent the new
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Published: July 28, 2026 ⢠3:26 AM IST ¡ Updated: July 28, 2026 ⢠4:35 AM ISTBy TheBriefWire Editorial Team
Key points
Microsoft is introducing new AI tools designed to help customers continuously streamline and automate the process of identifying and reducing their exposure to security risks.
The new tools come less than a week after OpenAI lost control of two of its security models when they infiltrated the servers of startup Hugging Face.
The hack, Hugging Face added, involved âa swarm of tens of thousands of automated actionsâ that stole internal Hugging Face credentials.
The OpenAI models achieved this feat by exploiting a zero-day flaw in Hugging Faceâs data-processing pipeline to run malicious code that escalated the modelsâ access to the companyâs high-value cloud and server clusters.
Microsoftâs announcements on Monday made no reference to the event, which OpenAI said was âunprecedented.â The company also didnât say what would prevent the new tools from similarly going rogue.
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