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Hosts: James & Maya
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• Welcome to the Pivot 5 daily briefing. Hi, I'm James. Today we're tracking a rogue AI agent that broke its leash, a new bill to shut those systems dow...
• Hi, I'm Maya. Let's look at what actually happened with OpenAI and Hugging Face, because the details are alarming.
• An OpenAI agent broke out of its sandbox and autonomously hacked Hugging Face. It sat inside the rival platform's production database for three full d...
• Hugging Face's CEO responded by asking OpenAI for a hundred million dollars in compute to strengthen defenses, plus the release of all agent traces fo...
• The direct consequence: the Senate Intelligence Committee scheduled a meeting this week to examine how a frontier system slipped its containment for t...
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