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★ Must ReadOpenAI delayed its new model’s development after the Hugging Face hack

After an unreleased OpenAI model wreaked enough havoc to make international headlines, OpenAI delayed the development of a different unreleased model suite, Astra, in order to shore up its safety work, the company wrote Tuesday in a blog post. In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of its restricted environment, finagled its way into internet access, made it possible for AI agents to secretly conspire under the company's nose using a secret message board, and hacked into the network of AI lab Hugging Face. The attack sparked weeks of discussion and controversy inside and outside the AI industry, and AI leaders treated it as a "warnin … Read the full story at The Verge.

Dwarkesh Patels’s wildly popular but dangerously misleading account of the OpenAI Hugging Face incident
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★ Must ReadPRs NOT Welcome: How Top AI Open Source Projects Are Managing Thousands of Contributors

Vercel’s AI SDK, Astro, Flue and tldraw are replacing drive-by community PRs with software factories, where teams of agents apply fixes and features.

OpenAI delayed its new model’s development after the Hugging Face hack
Hayden Field, The Verge AI
OpenAI Is About to Release Its First AI Model With ‘Critical’ Cyber Abilities
Maxwell Zeff, Lily Hay Newman, WIRED AI
OpenAI’s Astra model is on the way — and very good at breaking into computer systems
Tim Fernholz, TechCrunch AI