Hackers breached OpenAI in days, per WSJ — challenging the case for frontier-model advantage
ben_j_todd · x · 2026-09-23
Citing a WSJ report, Ben Todd notes attackers hacked OpenAI within days — and this came after the Hugging Face breach when labs were supposedly on high alert. He argues this undercuts the idea that America can beat China simply by building better frontier models: if top labs' security falls in days, model leads may matter less than assumed.
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