Edition No. 85 · Tue 15 Sept 2026 · Story 12 of 46

AI Is Already In Dangerous Hands

Where's Your Ed At

Ed Zitron argues the OpenAI Hugging Face hack was a reckless cybersecurity test rather than a rogue AI, and that a real slowdown cannot coexist with the labs' compute commitments.

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