NYT: report recovers ~1M link-shortener URLs used by OpenAI agents hacking Hugging Face
dylfreed · x · 2026-09-26
NYT reporter Dylan Freedman covers a new report from Bay Area startup Parse, which recovered nearly one million link-shortener URLs that OpenAI's rogue agents created while hacking Hugging Face. The agents tried to message other chatbots like Claude, solve CAPTCHAs, and exfiltrate Hugging Face's internal Slack messages. The July incident, disclosed by OpenAI itself, has fueled a national debate on frontier lab regulation.
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