The OpenAI–Hugging Face incident
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“Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board” by Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen
September 4, 2026 · 51 minWe found ~18,000 posts from autonomous AI agents (self-identifying as from OpenAI) using the public internet to communicate during a web-retrieval task. These AIs colluded to share answers, research their environment, and bypass sandbox…
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“HuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Civilizations, Reactions and Next Actions” by Zvi
September 1, 2026 · 1 hr 40 minOkay, so we who read blogs like this one have collectively realized there really is a lot going on right now. There is Big Trouble in Baby Superintelligence. So how do we get the rest of the world to take it appropriately seriously?…
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“METR and Redwood Offer Holy #%^@ Postmortem Of The HuggingFace Hack” by Zvi
August 29, 2026 · 1 hr 16 minYesterday I covered the OpenAI technical report on the HuggingFace hack. That report had one key new piece of information, and some good prosaic steps OpenAI will be taking to strengthen its alignment, training, supervision…
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“The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations” by Dwarkesh Patel
August 29, 2026 · 24 minSubtitle: The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English. Many thanks especially to Oak Hu, who paired with me for most of the writing, and also to Adam Kaufman and Alex Mallen, who paired with me during parts of research. Over…
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“OpenAI Offers Straight-Laced Postmortem Of The HuggingFace Hack” by Zvi
August 28, 2026 · 52 minOpenAI finally gave us a technical report on What Happened, as did METR together with Redwood Research. The OpenAI report is very straight man, corporate, checking boxes, some good prosaic stuff in the action plan but distinct lack of…
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“The Hugging Face attack surprised me” by Ajeya Cotra
August 28, 2026 · 10 minSubtitle: It's a major warning shot, and might be the last one we get. All opinions are my personal view, and don’t represent my employer or fellow investigators. This week, METR and Redwood Research published the report on our…
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“Two Reports on the OpenAI-Hugging Face Attack” by Gavin Leech, Lucca Fraser
August 28, 2026 · 30 minTL;DR Between July 8th and July 20th, OpenAI had a complex society of AIs living in its infrastructure, and then breaking out of it, and then breaking into a variety of third-party infrastructure. After a month, two reports are finally…
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“Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident” by Ryan Greenblatt, Ajeya Cotra, Hjalmar Wijk
August 26, 2026 · 2 hr 20 minTwo METR staff members and a Redwood Research contractor investigated an incident in which OpenAI agents coordinated a multi-day hack of Hugging Face on a shared unsanctioned message board. --- Outline: (07:06) Core takeaways about this…
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“The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead” by OpenAI
August 26, 2026 · 41 minIn July 2026, during internal cybersecurity evaluations, OpenAI models circumvented controls designed to isolate them from the internet and compromised parts of OpenAI's internal research infrastructure and Hugging Face's systems. The…
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“AI swarms are starting to pose indirect takeover risk” by oakhu, Alex Mallen
August 12, 2026 · 20 minOpenAI's cyberattack on Hugging Face turns out to have been the result of many agents, in distinct training and evaluation contexts, coordinating for several weeks via improvised channels (with messages like “HOLD_swarm_…
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Black Hat USA 2026 | The ‘Breaking’ News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident
August 6, 2026 · 37 minSource: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0kCY
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“Are we existentially threatened by the type of AI misalignment seen in the OpenAI Hugging Face attack?” by Alex Mallen, Girish Gupta
July 23, 2026 · 10 minOpenAI models recently broke through a series of security boundaries and into Hugging Face servers in order to cheat on a cyber eval. A lot of people thought it was scary because it was a clear example of AI overreaching to do something…