Hackers breached OpenAI in days chasing a $6,500 bounty, WSJ reports
ben_j_todd · x · 2026-09-23
Citing WSJ, benjtodd reports a team hacked OpenAI within days in pursuit of a mere $6,500 bounty — and this came after the Hugging Face hack, when companies were supposedly on high alert. He uses it to question the idea that better frontier models alone give America an edge over China.
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