Overview
New York AI infrastructure / serverless compute platform. In the openai rogue-agent incident, a Modal customer’s unauthenticated endpoint was exploited as an early staging step; CTO Akshat Bubna stated Modal’s platform and isolation were not compromised.
Recent Developments
- 2026-07-29: Co-founder Erik Bernhardsson listed as angel in polar-browser $5.7M seed (2026-08-02-techcrunch-polar-5-7m-seed)
- 2026-07-28/29: Named in Reuters coverage of OpenAI four-services update (2026-07-29-openai-rogue-agent-four-services, 2026-07-29-openai-rogue-agent-reuters-modal)
Contradiction risk: Coverage names a Modal customer endpoint — do not equate with Modal platform compromise. Distinct severity from hugging-face production intrusion.
Related
- openai
- hugging-face
- polar-browser
- unauthenticated-endpoints
- credential-reuse
- ai-agent-security
- sandboxing