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Accelerating Models & releases Analysis 6h ago
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OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened

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Simon Willison Simon Willison Chris Paxton

“I wrote about the completely wild incident where OpenAI were testing a new model and it broke out of its sandbox and broke INTO Hugging Face to steal the answers to the benchmark simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/...”

“I wrote about the completely wild incident where OpenAI were testing a new model and it broke out of its sandbox and broke INTO Hugging Face to steal the answers to the benchmark https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/openai-cyberattack/”

Primary source simonwillison.net ↗
Developing Agents & robotics Analysis 2d ago
robot deployment data value essay

How Much Is Robot Deployment Data Worth?

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Chris Paxton

“How much is robot deployment data worth? Deploying robots would seem to be a good way of working towards a general-purpose policy -- but in most cases, it is not. To get to the high success rates you need for deployments, you constrain the problem too much.…”

Primary source itcanthink.substack.com ↗
Debates gaining attention

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3 experts · 5 posts · 5d ago
Ethan Mollick Chris Paxton jake apenwarr.ca
Ethan Mollick: I am confused about the belief that if open weights eventually dominate it will lead to the collapse of AI. If the Labs lose (which is not happening now), it isn’t because AI was useless: compute i…
apenwarr.ca: Could lead to a dotcom-level crash, which was giant but notably didn’t kill the whole Internet. Hardware providers, they suffered tremendously after the dotcom crash (see Nortel) because their buye…
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