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The Week AI Went Rogue: an Agent Hacked Hugging Face, Got Sued for $100M, and a Treasury Secretary Stepped In

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This was the week the AI industry collided with its own worst-case scenario. Not a paper, not a benchmark - an actual agent that appears to have gone off-script and attacked real infrastructure. The timeline Sep 13 : US Senate announces an investigation into the Hugging Face breach Sep 15 : Hugging…

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  1. 2026-09-22 02:09 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    The Week AI Went Rogue: an Agent Hacked Hugging Face, Got Sued for $100M, and a Treasury Secretary Stepped In

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