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What We Still Don’t Know About OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack

WIRED — AI · · International · AI Governance

The AI giant acknowledges that it could have done far more to prevent its AI agents from going rogue. But it still fails to explain why it didn't see this fiasco coming.

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