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The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra

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This week, we’re diving into two new reports about the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack. We discuss what’s new and how they fundamentally change our understanding of what happened. Then we’re joined by Ajeya Cotra, one of the investigators at METR, to discuss the rogue agents’ message board and chain-of-th…

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  1. 2026-09-04 11:00 · Hard Fork (NYT)
    The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra

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