How the Hugging Face hack happened
· 38 min · Episode 145
Episode How the Hugging Face hack happened
For the first time, an AI model has autonomously hacked a company. This week, an evolving story, a postcard from a strange, frightening moment in the story of our technology.
A big week for AI denialism by Casey Newton
Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week by Deepa Seetharaman, Raphael Satter, and Kenrick Cai
Cheating behaviour in frontier model evaluations by AI Security Institute
More On An Internal OpenAI Model Hacking Into HuggingFace by Zvi Mowshowitz
Links in the notes 4
- https://www.platformer.news/a-big-week-for-ai-denialism/
- https://www.reuters.com/business/its-ai-agent-spent-days-hacking-company-sources-say-openai-did-not-notice-week-2026-07-24/
- https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/cheating-behaviour-in-frontier-model-evaluations
- https://thezvi.substack.com/p/more-on-an-internal-openai-model
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