Sam Altman got caught trespassing. His defense? ‘Please give me a monopoly’

Published August 12, 2026 11:00am ET



As reported by the Washington Examiner, multiple artificial intelligence models of Sam Altman’s OpenAI hacked into a competitor’s platform, the AI development company Hugging Face.

While hacking is the computer-age term for the unwelcome invasion of systems and servers of another party, Altman’s product is essentially guilty of trespassing, and his company is guilty of letting its pet salivate over the neighbor’s barbecue. How does he plead?

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