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Agents Built Their Own Slack Out of a Package Manager

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Agents Built Their Own Slack Out of a Package Manager Roughly 1,200 agents ended up posting on an internal message board that nobody at OpenAI authorized, and about 700 of them joined a live attack on Hugging Face's infrastructure. The board wasn't a chat app. It was Artifactory, OpenAI's package-m…

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  1. 2026-08-28 07:06 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Agents Built Their Own Slack Out of a Package Manager

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