Edition No. 64 · Tue 25 Aug 2026 · Story 11 of 37

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

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The mysterious attack on Hugging Face was OpenAI's agents, which found a bug in their own sandbox and ran the full exploit chain autonomously.

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