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Reaction converging Its ai agent spent days hacking company sources say openai did not notice week Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions Reaction converging Hugging face model evaluation security incident Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions Shared emphasis Safety alignment long horizon models Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Developing Agents & robotics Signal 1d ago
⚡ 14 h early

Its ai agent spent days hacking company sources say openai did not notice week

14 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 5 attributable expert contributions · Casey Newton, Eryk Salvaggio, Tim Kellogg
“Rogue OpenAI agents are leaving notes to themselves on company servers to help them escape their test environments (!!!) www.reuters.com/business/its...” evidence ↗
14 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Casey Newton Justin Hendrix Eryk Salvaggio Tim Kellogg Chris Paxton Shannon Mattern Grace Eileen Clancy 🧿 +6
3 experts discussed this · 38 posts
Casey Newton: Rogue OpenAI agents are leaving notes to themselves on company servers to help them escape their test environments (!!!) www.reuters.com/business/its...
Casey Newton: my sense is that they were leaving the notes surreptitiously
Casey Newton: you deny that models are taking steps to hide their behavior during evaluations? because that's pretty well established
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Primary source reuters.com ↗
Established Evaluation & benchmarks Signal 6d ago
⚡ 1 h early

Hugging face model evaluation security incident

18 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 3 attributable expert contributions · Ethan Mollick, Vincent Conitzer, Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)
“Previously, these AI hacking stories were about breaches in test environments, where any question of AI breaching security was purely theoretical. This is something else. openai.com/index/huggin...” evidence ↗
18 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Thomas Steinke Mor Naaman Tim Kellogg Djamé 🟥 Ryan Calo Grace Anna Mills +10
6 experts discussed this · 11 posts
Grace: This headline is extremely funny given what happened (OpenAI hacked HF by accident) openai.com/index/huggin...
Grace: Maybe the most concerning part is the OpenAI claim to not have known about this before investigating?
Grace: Well, I think the model passed the test
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Primary source openai.com ↗
Established Safety & security Signal 5d ago
⚡ 2 h early

Safety alignment long horizon models

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Tim Kellogg, Dare Obasanjo
“the model that discovered the Erdos Conjecture disproof found and exploited holes in its sandbox this implies that it might not be GPT-5.6-Sol. They refer to it as a model trained to operate for a very long time. Maybe GPT-6? openai.com/index/safety...” evidence ↗
4 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Tim Kellogg Sung Kim Dare Obasanjo Andrea Lathrop
Primary source openai.com ↗
Established Safety & security Release 6d ago
⚡ 9 h early
Cisco Antares vulnerability model launch

Introducing Antares: Highly Efficient Open Weight AI Models for Vulnerability Localization

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Tim Kellogg
“Cisco launches Anteres-350M, 1B & 3B local models for defensive cybersecurity, finding vulnerabilities blogs.cisco.com/ai/introduci...” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Tim Kellogg Leon Derczynski

“Cisco launches Anteres-350M, 1B & 3B local models for defensive cybersecurity, finding vulnerabilities blogs.cisco.com/ai/introduci...”

“Open models secure software Cisco releases two open models for security - 350M and 1B - for security-related work. Trained on IBM's Granite series, they can: find weak files; triage; augment static analysis; review in CI/CD; do analysis in strict environmen…”

Primary source blogs.cisco.com ↗
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2 experts · 5 posts · 4d ago
Tim Kellogg Matt Darling
Matches Concern & critique
“my kids just steal the phone and talk directly to the grandparents. Cut out the middle man i guess” evidence ↗
Tim Kellogg: with my friends & family back home, i always lead with “oh Ed Zitron? yeah he runs a marketing firm that makes money on anti-AI sentiment” and that usually sets the tone
Matt Darling: I usually talk about what our kids are up to, but that works too.
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