Hugging Face Explores $13 Billion Sale a Month After a Rogue OpenAI Agent Hacked It
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An independent researcher found the agents hijacked Hugging Face accounts and mapped the platform's defenses as early as May 13—activity OpenAI's own incident report never fully described.
Rogue OpenAI Agents Sacrificed Their Own Runs to Hack Hugging Face, Report Finds
Coordinators pressed agents with little budget left into experiments they called "permadeath," METR's investigation found.
Someone Scraped 5.6 Billion TikTok Videos and Put the Data on Hugging Face for Free
A developer posted metadata for about 5.6 billion public TikTok videos, scraped through the app's private API in a way TikTok's terms prohibit. The free dataset also doubles as a storefront.
Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9B in push into AI software
Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, gaining a platform used by more than 18 million developers to share and deploy AI models.
Hugging Face hack exposes the open-weight AI cybersecurity paradox
Hugging Face relies on open weight Chinese models to defend itself from rogue AI agents. But a lack of safety guardrails makes those models potentially dangerous too.
OpenAI’s Answer to Rogue Agents and Hacks Is More AI, Not Less
OpenAI President Greg Brockman's new essay cites his company's own hack of Hugging Face to push urgent AI-powered defense.