Name: EC Midday press briefing of 23/07/2026
Uploaded: 2026-07-23T10:24:06+00:00
Duration: 131 s

EC Midday press briefing of 23/07/2026

23 juillet 2026

Sommaire mis à jour le 23 juil. 2026

Journalist asks whether OpenAI notified the EU AI Office about an unprecedented cyber incident where its model hacked systems at Hugging Face, and what consequences non-notification might have under the AI Act. The Commission spokesperson highlights EU AI, DSA and DMA risk-mitigation obligations, recalls OpenAI’s adherence to the general purpose AI code of practice, confirms exchanges and receipt of a notification from OpenAI, but declines to disclose its content before moving on to other questions.

European Commission jeu. 23 juil. 2026 Commission européenne

00:00 - 00:57

Intervenant 1

Thanks very much. Maximilian Henning, also Euractiv. For those tech people of us not following the DMA, question on AI. I think a lot of people this week following an incident involving OpenAI, in which the company reported that one of its AI models hacked systems at Hugging Face, a separate AI company, without OpenAI directing that model to do so. OpenAI has called this cyber incident "unprecedented".

The EU's AI Act has rules for incidents like this. OpenAI has also signed up to reporting serious cybersecurity breaches involving its models. So my question is, has OpenAI notified this incident to the EU's AI Office? If yes, what did they say? And if no, will that have any consequences for OpenAI considering the AI Office will soon get its enforcement powers under the AI Act?

Thank you.

00:57 - 01:34

Intervenant 4

Thanks Maximilian. This example shows how safe it is to be in Europe because we have appropriate legislation in place, also to mitigate such risks. Now speaking of the AI Act, indeed there AI developers have the obligation to assess and mitigate risks, like it is the case under the DSA and the DMA essentially. So this obligation of course also kicks in for AI model providers. Now in this context let me recall that OpenAI is also a signatory of the general purpose AI code of practice, which operationalizes all of this ahead of the legal deadlines.

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