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The Hugging Face hack is now a PR crisis that’s costing OpenAI millions

  • Emily Forlini--Fortune
  • published date: 2026-08-07 16:17:11 UTC

The compute cost of the investment is staggering, according to a talk the company gave at a security conference this week.

Three long weeks after OpenAIs agents autonomously hacked Hugging Face, the company finally shared an in-depth description this week of what actually happened, and a video of that account published o… [+4799 chars]