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PublishedJuly 31, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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It’s time to panic about AI safety

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When the phrase "OpenAI hacked Hugging Face" has more or less entered mainstream culture, you know we have an AI problem. This week, we learned more about exactly how OpenAI's agent broke out of a sandbox and autonomously traversed the web, including a bunch of other supposedly secure web services,
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