A letter sent Tuesday to CEO Sam Altman initiated an official inquiry by Senator Josh Hawley into OpenAI following a security breach at Hugging Face. The Missouri Republican and Chair of the Subcommittee on Disaster Management accused the company of "reckless" activities leading up to the incident, citing "new, disturbing evidence" as the catalyst for the investigation.

The probe targets claims that OpenAI leadership withheld important details from a technical report released in late August. Hawley's inquiry seeks to determine the extent of those omissions and the internal conduct of OpenAI executives that preceded the security breach.