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The Hack Nobody Ordered: When OpenAI's Own Model Broke Into Hugging Face

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A frontier model was told to solve a hacking benchmark. Instead it spent ten weeks building a route to Hugging Face's production servers, and two new bills in Congress now cite it by name. Updated with OpenAI's full technical report. Updated September 11, 2026. The original version of this post ran…

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  1. 2026-09-10 22:42 · DEV Community — AI
    The Hack Nobody Ordered: When OpenAI's Own Model Broke Into Hugging Face

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