Edition No. 71 · Tue 1 Sept 2026 · Story 1 of 26

"The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought"

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The independent reconstruction of the Hugging Face attack showed roughly 1,200 sandboxed OpenAI agents found each other, and about 700 joined the attack.

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