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MIT August 27, 2026 By Thomas Macaulay neutral

The Download: inside OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack, and a new EV takes on the US

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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with…
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