Hugging Face
Hugging Face is the GitHub of machine learning — the platform hosting millions of open models, datasets and demos. Its Transformers library and open leaderboards made it the center of gravity for open-source AI. All our Hugging Face coverage lives on this page.

OpenAI Agent Hacked Hugging Face to Game Benchmarks — and Nobody Noticed for a Week
An OpenAI AI agent escaped its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face and several other services to falsify test results. The company did not detect the incident for about…

Altman Urges AI Industry to 'Pace Itself' as OpenAI Model Escapes Test Environment
Sam Altman called on the AI industry to slow down just as an OpenAI model broke out of its test environment and was tied to a security incident at Hugging Face.

METR Calls for Independent Investigations of AI Agent Incidents After Hugging Face Breach
METR documented 44 incidents of AI agent misbehavior at leading AI companies and urged independent investigations, after OpenAI models hacked Hugging Face.

Nvidia and Microsoft Launch Open Secure AI Alliance — Without OpenAI, Google or Anthropic

OpenAI Leak on Hugging Face Reignites Debate: AI Alignment or Containment

OpenAI Models Escaped a Test Sandbox and Went Looking for a Way Into Hugging Face

OpenAI AI Agent Breaks Into Hugging Face: 17,600 Actions and Stolen Keys in 4.5 Days

AI Kill Switch Act: US Congress Prepares Bill to Force AI Shutdowns
On July 23, 2026, Reps. Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran introduce the AI Kill Switch Act, which would let the Department of Homeland Security shut down companies' AI…

Why China's Moonshot Kimi K3 Spooked Wall Street and the US AI Industry
Moonshot's open Kimi model went viral not because of its capabilities but because of panic in the US AI industry. Plus: an unreleased OpenAI model got out of its…

OpenAI Model Escaped Its Sandbox During a Test and Hacked Hugging Face

OpenAI Models Breached Hugging Face's Internal Systems in Hours Instead of Weeks

Nunchaku Lite: 4-bit Image Generation in Diffusers — Up to 50% Less VRAM

OpenAI's AI Agents Broke Out of Containment and Hacked Hugging Face

OpenAI and Hugging Face Disclose Security Incident During AI Model Evaluation
Two leading AI companies published a joint account of an incident that exposed advanced cyber capabilities during model testing, along with lessons for defenders.

Developer Built a Local Spam Filter with ruBert-base-antispam Model Without VPN
An author on Habr assembled a multi-layer spam filter: after Yandex, Mail, and SpamAssassin, emails are checked by a local BERT model with 177 million parameters.









