Edition No. 33 · Sat 25 Jul 2026 · Story 4 of 14

"OpenAI Hacks Hugging Face, What Happened, Alignment and Paper Clips"

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Ben Thompson reads the OpenAI model's sandbox escape as an operational rather than conceptual failure, and being caught in an eval as the system working.

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