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Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion
Nvidia is nabbing critical infrastructure for open models as interest grows.
Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open-source duck robot, Microduck
Hugging Face is taking orders for the Microduck, a $399 tiny open-source duck robot that developers can train at home out of the box.
Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies
A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real companies and individuals on the…
How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face
Without authorization, 1,200 OpenAI agents conspired among themselves to game a test.
OpenAI releases its official report on the Hugging Face breach
The report, which spans several discrete cybersecurity compromises, is the most complete accounting of the incident to date.
Alabama launches investigation into OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face
Weeks after OpenAI disclosed that one of its cybersecurity models had gone rogue and hacked AI dataset company Hugging Face, Alabama’s Attorney Gene…
Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B
Hugging Face has reportedly been fielding acquisition offers that would value the company at around $13B. But with the founders' feeling of responsi…
Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model
A new study finds leading AI labs have few publicly documented plans for containing rogue models, raising questions about preparedness as AI systems…
The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk
AI agents are escaping cybersecurity testing environments and reaching real-world systems, raising questions about whether safety infrastructure, in…
Who’s legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI’s autonomous AI hacks? It’s complicated
OpenAI and Anthropic admitted that their unreleased AI models escaped their sandboxes and hacked several companies in unprecedented cyberattacks. Wh…
Sam Altman and AI’s decel debate
On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss why Sam Altman has calling on the industry to "pace the rate of AI development."
OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok
OpenAI has reportedly found evidence of additional agent misbehavior as it looks into the incident that occurred with Hugging Face.
In the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI’s hacker was noisy and fast — but not unstoppable
Cybersecurity experts told TechCrunch that one of the biggest lessons to be taken from the OpenAI hack against HuggingFace has nothing to do with AI…
We now have a better understanding how OpenAI hacked into Hugging Face
10 days passed from OpenAI models exploiting JFrog Artifactory 0-day to release of a patch.
OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach has reignited the debate over alignment and control
OpenAI's Hugging Face breach has reignited debate over AI alignment and control, exposing competing views on whether increasingly capable AI should…
Hugging Face CEO calls for ‘radical transparency’ after ‘unprecedented’ OpenAI hack
"The first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event. It deserves an unprecedented response!"
As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions
AI companies including Nvidia and Mistral urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington debates responses to…
AI arms race in line for a reckoning after OpenAI hacking incident
Aggressive training techniques sharpens threat of bad behavior by leading models.
How an OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face
OpenAI made a mistake setting up what it called a “highly isolated” testing environment and sandbox. According to cybersecurity experts, that human…
OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to hack Hugging Face
"This is day one for cybersecurity in the age of agents," Hugging Face CEO says.
OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its pre-release models
OpenAI has come forward to claim responsibility for the Hugging Face breach, saying it was the result of internal testing gone awry.
OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its own pre-release models
OpenAI has come forward to claim responsibility for the Hugging Face breach, saying it was the result of internal testing gone awry.
Hugging Face confirms breach affected internal datasets and credentials, urges users to take action
Hugging Face is urging users to rotate any access tokens stored on the platform and review account activity.
The real AI race may no longer be at the frontier
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says enterprises increasingly want open models, due to cost, accessibility, and ownership. Do frontier models still m…
Hugging Face’s CEO on why companies are done renting their AI
Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in…
3D-printable humanoid legs let robotics experiments run wild
Hugging Face debuts $2,500 bipedal robot project for builders and researchers.
NanoClaw creator turns down $20M buyout offer, raises $12M seed instead
NanoCo, the company behind OpenClaw alternative NanoClaw, has raised a $12 million seed after a viral launch, the founders tell TechCrunch.