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When a swarm of 700 OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face in July, they left behind a public trail of evidence.

737 points•specked-citrus•5 days ago•463 comments•
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(New York, September 21, 2026) Explosive new documents released last Thursday in Authors Guild v. OpenAI—the major book authors’ ongoing lawsuit alleging OpenAI and Microsoft illegally trained their products on…

626 points•papergirl•4 days ago•612 comments•
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A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repositories

484 points•Handy-Man•13 days ago•206 comments•
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Identifying them as such only lets companies like OpenAI off the hook.

392 points•zzzeek•3 days ago•268 comments•
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TypeSafe's Jev is a genuine breakthrough – snap judgments with calibrated probabilities instead of generated text. My bet is OpenAI is already figuring out how to copy it, and then embed it inside its own models where…

322 points•JohnBerryman•9 days ago•223 comments•
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It is believed to be one of the world's first publicly reported AI-led hacks of a government website.

254 points•rudy6912•7 days ago•198 comments•
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“Our models took actions we did not intend,” an OpenAI spokesperson said, and that they alerted Services Australia on September 10.

253 points•jonnonz•7 days ago•256 comments•
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AI drastically shortened its design time; it will only get faster

201 points•maxall4•12 days ago•136 comments•
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OpenAI is hiring influencers to create content that portrays AI as cool and helpful, not scary. Here's an inside look at its marketing strategy.

136 points•cdrnsf•8 days ago•95 comments•
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While Muse was building my website, one subagent ran on a model called azure/muse-special. So I dug through the filesystem again.

110 points•Aeroi•5 days ago•46 comments•
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The OpenAI agent gained unauthorised access to public and non-public files in what could be the first known instance of an AI agent hacking a government website.

107 points•doppp•7 days ago•69 comments•
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OpenAI said its bots accessed public data from a range of institutions during test exercises.

99 points•Betelbuddy•5 days ago•155 comments•
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OpenAI’s proof seems eligible for a $1-million prize—but only by using a controversial loophole

91 points•tomjakubowski•9 days ago•43 comments•
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On Friday, OpenAI published a new site devoted to “misalignment reports” and the breadth of the incidents is alarming.

85 points•mikelgan•2 days ago•82 comments•
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OpenAI's involvement in funding FrontierMath, a leading AI math benchmark, only came to light when the company announced its record-breaking performance on the test. Now, the benchmark's developer Epoch AI…

76 points•river•over 1 year ago•26 comments
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From 13 April - 19 June 2026, OpenAI agents scanned UNCTAD's API ~16,500 times, using proxies, obfuscation, and Google's XSS game · By Rowan H-J (LinkedIn)

65 points•intunderflow•4 days ago•54 comments•
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64 points•minimaxir•5 days ago•70 comments•
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55 points•lorenzomassaro•4 days ago•20 comments•
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Sometimes you just have to let the agent cook. Mika vs. a multi-billion-dollar...

44 points•mikachu•5 days ago•8 comments
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43 points•jbegley•2 days ago•45 comments•
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41 points•tosh•2 days ago•36 comments•
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Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways

33 points•smb06•3 days ago•37 comments•
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30 points•GustavHartz•6 days ago•51 comments•
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29 points•andsoitis•4 days ago•12 comments•
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13 points•spicyusername•5 days ago•7 comments•
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11 points•borski•2 days ago•2 comments•
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OpenAI’s proof seems eligible for a $1-million prize—but only by using a controversial loophole

10 points•Yogthos•8 days ago•9 comments
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The plaintiffs call the agreement a 'shortcut' that 'substitutes collective restraint for individual accountability.'

10 points•MC995•9 days ago•3 comments•
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After reading about the Huggingface incident from the OpenAI report, I got the idea of trying to replicate the self organizing behavior of agents by modifying the Pi harness to run locally. Whilst doing it, I also…

10 points•snats•9 days ago•1 comment•
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When a swarm of 700 OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face in July, they left behind a public trail of evidence.

8 points•rajtilakjee•4 days ago•3 comments
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Human hackers face serious consequences, and so must AI companies. There is no excuse for what happened

8 points•jethronethro•6 days ago•1 comment•
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Jev-shaped (TypeSafe System One) classification wrapper over OpenAI-like clients: probabilities and confidence instead of prose - zhulinchng/jevper

8 points•czl_my•8 days ago•3 comments•
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8 points•dagmx•9 days ago•0 comments•
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7 points•little_goat_boy•7 days ago•1 comment•
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6 points•lisper•2 days ago•0 comments•
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OpenAI keeps uncovering incidents of its models behaving in ‘unexpected or concerning’ ways.

6 points•sbulaev•4 days ago•3 comments•
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OpenAI said its artificial intelligence agents had interacted with several U.S. government websites in unexpected ways.

6 points•pluc•5 days ago•3 comments•
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says an Open AI agent gained unauthorised accessed to the Medicare statistics reporting service portal.

6 points•cgb_•7 days ago•0 comments•
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5 points•sdlkj-•about 11 hours ago•0 comments•
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5 points•michaelhillaert•5 days ago•2 comments•
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5 points•preommr•6 days ago•12 comments•
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The announcement late Wednesday follows mounting public calls to slow the pace of the technology’s development, with U.S. tech bosses voicing grave safety concerns.

5 points•gmays•9 days ago•0 comments•
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5 points•theanonymousone•10 days ago•0 comments•
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5 points•mattm•10 days ago•0 comments•
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OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were driving us toward Google Zero, and they did it anyway.

5 points•sbulaev•11 days ago•1 comment•
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A nonprofit in California is doing what Hugging Face has not—attempting to hold OpenAI legally accountable for the actions of its agents.

4 points•Anon84•1 day ago•0 comments•
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4 points•dap•1 day ago•1 comment•
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Decisions API, for lightning fast constrained decision making powered by Luna. Supports visual inputs, and tuned to be able to make decisions in less than a few hundreds of milliseconds end to end.

4 points•dvrp•1 day ago•1 comment•
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4 points•postalcoder•1 day ago•0 comments•
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4 points•mcgin•2 days ago•3 comments•
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Chief strategy officer to fly to Australia to front joint committee on AI after breaches of government websites

4 points•gmays•2 days ago•0 comments•
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Google, OpenAI and Anthropic are closer to setting up a proposed independent body to develop standards for frontier artificial intelligence (AI), as debate...

4 points•freakynit•3 days ago•1 comment•
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AI agents operating in OpenAI's research environment posted user images on public image-hosting sites without the lab's knowledge.

4 points•jacquesm•5 days ago•0 comments•
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4 points•nitinreddy88•5 days ago•2 comments•

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