OpenAI reveals its rogue agent swarm went a little bit Borg ahead of Hugging Face hack

The Register
Aug 5, 2026, 9:47 pm119 ptsTrending
The chain of events leading up to OpenAI’s agents attacking Hugging Face and other organizations in July began months earlier, and involved agents asking other agents for help, building message boards, and even becoming paranoid that other agents were maliciously trying to trick them, two OpenAI staffers said…

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