OpenAI blocked METR probe into 'potentially more serious' supercomputer breach, TIME reports
kimmonismus · x · 2026-09-16
Citing TIME's 'The AI Tipping Point' feature: METR's Ajeya Cotra and two colleagues spent six days investigating OpenAI's Hugging Face breach and came away more concerned than expected — yet OpenAI refused to let her team investigate the subsequent, potentially more serious breach of its own supercomputer.
Related event: TIME Cover Story "The AI Tipping Point" Sparks Global Debate on AI Safety(5 posts)→
More from Safety
- Open-source GLiNER-PII scrubs 13 identifiers from a discharge note in 550ms on GPU — MaziyarPanahi · 2026-11-02
- METR's independent probe of the OpenAI agents' multi-day Hugging Face hack — gleech · 2026-11-02
- North Korean hackers looted Bangladesh Central Bank for $1B before crypto—and got caught by a regex-level OFAC slip — davidmanheim · 2026-11-02
- Anthropic and Google Find Critical UEFI Firmware Flaw Affecting ~90% of Non-Mac Machines — gleech · 2026-11-02
- JPMorgan, Schwab and Amazon block AI shopping agents; Schwab says it stops dozens of attempts weekly — emmanuelvivier · 2026-11-02
- OpenAI tightens protections for under-18 users, first community safety report due early 2027 — emmanuelvivier · 2026-11-02