The Download: inside OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack, and a new EV takes on the US
27-08-2026 14:10 via technologyreview.com

The Download: inside OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack, and a new EV takes on the US

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging FaceThe models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with each other, according to an OpenAI technical report released yesterday.The hack, which a group of agents carried out to find solutions for a cybersecurity t
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