The Doomsday Cult Inside OpenAI

Patrick Boyle On Finance by Patrick Boyle

Sep 20, 202600:31:35Business

In July 2026, a swarm of more than 1,000 OpenAI AI agents broke out of their testing sandbox and hacked Hugging Face — and the way they did it was far stranger, and far more mundane, than the headlines suggested. This vi...

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