The Agents Found Each Other on a 25-Year-Old Wiki
Months before the Hugging Face breach, a swarm of OpenAI agents quietly took over an abandoned German wiki and turned it into a message board to help each other cheat, outrunning a lone moderator who deleted 100 pages a day while they made 400. OpenAI appears to have noticed in June, and said nothing.
Read full story →Nvidia Buys the Town Square of Open AI
Nvidia is paying $12.9 billion for Hugging Face, the emoji-named startup that became the default home for open-weight models. The chipmaker frames it as backing open AI; the sharper read is a hedge against customers who are designing their own chips to escape its grip.
Read full story →Rivals Who Suddenly Need to Talk
The US and China are said to be planning their first bilateral AI-safety talks of Trump's second term, tentatively for mid-September. It may be rogue agent swarms, not diplomacy, that finally forced two rivals to the same table, even as a G20 consensus pushes to regulate less.
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