NYT: Watchdogs Kept on Short Leash Probing OpenAI Agents' Hugging Face Breach
Malor777 · reddit · 2026-09-04
According to the New York Times, a nonprofit studying how OpenAI's AI agents broke into Hugging Face's infrastructure was not allowed to see the incident's full scope. The report describes watchdogs being kept on a short leash after OpenAI's agents went rogue, limiting independent oversight of the security incident.
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