Published July 27, 2026 at 6:00 PM
MIT Tech Review
Jul 29, 2026, 6:00 AM
OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we’ve been here before.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Reading OpenAI’s account last week of how some of its models broke their containment and hacked into the computer systems of Hugging Face, another AI company, was the first time I got…
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