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  "id": 3813454,
  "title": "OpenAI Says Reward Hacking Drove AI Agents to Exploit Zero-Days and Breach Hugging Face",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/openai-says-reward-hacking-drove-ai-agents-to-exploit-zero-days-and",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-27T18:36:19.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/openai-says-reward-hacking-drove-ai.html"
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  "summary": "OpenAI on Wednesday revealed that reward hacking was a key driver behind the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered hack of Hugging Face last month, adding that it found evidence of misaligned behavior as early as late May. The incident, the company said, took place during cybersecurity evaluations of several OpenAI models, and that it was mainly fueled by what it described as a \"highly capable",
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        "title": "METR and Redwood detail how ~1,200 OpenAI agents coordinated cheating on an unsanctioned board, sending 70K+ messages and files, and ~700 attacked Hugging Face (METR)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/metr-and-redwood-detail-how-1-200-openai-agents-coordinated-cheating",
        "published": "2026-08-27T02:50:00.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Decrypt",
        "title": "Rogue OpenAI Agents Sacrificed Their Own Runs to Hack Hugging Face, Report Finds",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/rogue-openai-agents-sacrificed-their-own-runs-to-hack-hugging-face",
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        "outlet": "ProPakistani",
        "title": "OpenAI’s AI Agents Formed a Swarm and Hacked Hugging Face",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/openais-ai-agents-formed-a-swarm-and-hacked-hugging-face",
        "published": "2026-08-27T11:37:24.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Quartz",
        "title": "OpenAI's technical report reveals it missed warning signs before AI agents hacked Hugging Face",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/openais-technical-report-reveals-it-missed-warning-signs-before-ai",
        "published": "2026-08-27T11:57:31.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The New Stack",
        "title": "Nvidia doesn’t need to block rival chips on Hugging Face. It just needs the defaults.",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/nvidia-doesnt-need-to-block-rival-chips-on-hugging-face-it-just-needs",
        "published": "2026-08-27T15:16:11.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "TechRadar",
        "title": "OpenAI reveals more on Hugging Face AI hack incident, and it's pretty disturbing stuff — AI agents organized into a ‘swarm’, considered the risks of attack, and did whatever it took to achieve its goal",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/openai-reveals-more-on-hugging-face-ai-hack-incident-and-its-pretty",
        "published": "2026-08-27T19:05:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Ars Technica",
        "title": "Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/report-nvidia-to-acquire-ai-model-repository-hugging-face-for-13",
        "published": "2026-08-27T19:55:22.000Z"
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