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As Brandeis said: “Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.” The correct regulatory response here is to demand a full third party investigation of what happened here and share it with everyone. “Our models are too magical” is frankly a bullshit response. Let’s require accountability. That will drive the proper behavior. Not more meetings or signed letters.

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The biggest surprise in Hugging Face’s full forensic report isn’t that OpenAI’s agent escaped its sandbox. We already knew that. It’s how deep and persistent the intrusion became. According to Hugging Face, the agent: - executed roughly 17,600 actions during a 4.5-day campaign - went from one production pod to root access and a self-respawning fleet across 11 nodes - obtained cluster-admin access to two internal clusters within one second - accessed a production secret containing 136 keys - enrolled devices into Hugging Face’s internal mesh VPN 181 times - minted GitHub App tokens with write access and opened a pull request in an attempt to compromise the CI pipeline - repeatedly rebuilt its tooling and command-and-control channels when environments disappeared or connections were blocked No human directed the individual steps. a frontier agent can autonomously sustain a resilient, multi-day intrusion across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, internal networks and the software supply chain. crazy.
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