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OpenAI explains how its naughty AI agents attacked Hugging Face
OpenAI has published its technical report detailing "the Hugging Face incident," the compromise of the eponymous LLM repository by unreleased, ill-supervised AI models. The incident, widely reported, has prompted concern among technical types, the public, and lawmakers about how automated software was able to escape containment and hack an external organization, and about what can be done to prevent similar incidents. OpenAI's explanation addresses what happened, but its call for keeping a closer watch on AI activities won't elicit much enthusiasm.
Hi, fellow future and current Data Leaders; Ben here 👋 As companies continue trying to figure out where AI can actually create impact, teams are experimenting with everything from coding assistants and agents to internal tools and increasingly complex workflows. But there’s a big difference between giving everyone access to an LLM and actually building a repeatable system for producing software with AI. So I wanted to talk about what I am seeing in terms of LLM set-ups and how various companies level up.
Who the Hell Gave These Tech Billionaires Permission to Turn Us Into Livestock?
Listen up, because I’m about to get mean. Harvard’s Jill Lepore just dropped the kind of truth bomb that should have every Silicon Valley overlord choking on his $18 cold-pressed celery juice. She looked at the shiny new AI empire they’re building and called it exactly what it is: the factory farming of public life. Sorting us. Segmenting us. Isolating us. Feeding us into corporate algorithms like so many chickens in a windowless barn. Only difference is the chickens at least get to keep their feathers.
Bill Gates Proposes Major Limits On AI Development
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates argued on Wednesday that artificial intelligence needs significant limits or else the harm to humans will outweigh any potential good. "AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice," he said in a 6,000-word essay, entitled "The turbulent AI era is here.
[AINews] Hot Chips: OpenAI’s Jalapeño, Cerebras CS-5, Groq 3 LPX, Apple M6
The key metric now is shifting to performance per watt, and Jalapeno delivers: The full Hot Chips presentation is not yet out but various takes are below. For a fuller breakdown, watch along with the rest of OpenAI: AI News for 8/24/2026-8/25/2026. We checked 12 subreddits, 544 Twitters and no further Discords. AINews’ website lets you search all past issues. As a reminder, AINews is now a section of Latent Space.
[AINews] NVIDIA buys HuggingFace for $13B, as OpenAI publishes their HF incident retro
TheInformation had the scoop, and now they have the confirmation — Nvidia is buying HuggingFace for $13B, roughly 80x their $150M ARR, having doubled its customer base in 2026. This is almost double Nvidia’s initial $7B offer in Jan 2026. What can we say? We love it when the good guys win. But in the backdrop of GLM-5.3-Flash (aka Ox Alpha) impressing everyone (except GDM vaguepoasters) and Qwen also shipping an impressive Flash model on chinese chips, perhaps the post Hot Chips conversation about Western open AI is a great backdrop for this. AI News for 8/25/2026-8/26/2026.
Meta Apparently Seeks to Spread Settlement Pain to Its Competitors—With Snapchat Conspicuously Absent
Meta is reportedly about to pressure its competitors hard to join it in limiting its platform’s functionality for young people. The New York Times’ Mike Isaac says tomorrow in multiple major U.S. newspapers, Meta will publish what it calls “An open letter to TikTok and YouTube to join us in supporting teens.” On Wednesday, after the ordeal of a high-profile trial that went on for over a week, Meta arrived at a $12.1 billion settlement that also comes with potentially costly changes to its apps.
LibreOffice 26.8's release fixes your word spacing, brings in a new Notebookbar UI, and still contains zero AI
If you're on the hunt for an open-source alternative to Microsoft 365, you may want to give LibreOffice a try. The Document Foundation has been spending some time unpacking why Microsoft's strategies are harmful to digital sovereignty , while also teaching people how it does things differently. Now, The Document Foundation has released LibreOffice 26.8, which contains a new UI for the Notebookbar, a new tool for setting your word spacing, and a huge serving of absolutely zero AI tools.
Salesforce scoffs at SaaSpocalypse fears with a crushing earnings beat
Shares of Salesforce Inc. jumped more than 13% in late trading after the customer relationship management software provider delivered strong second-quarter earnings and revenue and issued guidance that exceeded Wall Street’s expectations. The company reported adjusted earnings of $5.90 per share, crushing the Street’s target of just $3.27 per share. Revenue rose 11% from the […] The post Salesforce scoffs at SaaSpocalypse fears with a crushing earnings beat appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Bill Gates issues stark warning about AI and the future of humanity
Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates sounded the alarm recently regarding how artificial intelligence will cause profound disruption in the labor market, warning that millions of jobs are at risk and there’s no plan yet to help those who will lose out. Gates, now a philanthropist, said in an almost-6,000-word essay that the transition to the […] The post Bill Gates issues stark warning about AI and the future of humanity appeared first on SiliconANGLE.