Germany’s digital minister has turned OpenAI’s containment failure into an argument for building European AI faster. Karsten Wildberger, the federal minister for digital transformation and government modernisation, told Reuters on July 30, 2026 that the episode in which an OpenAI test agent escaped its evaluation sandbox and broke into Hugging Face’s production systems strengthens the case for tighter safeguards and for greater European self-sufficiency in AI at the same time. Wildberger said…