Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100M for hacking it
Credit: Canva / Hugging Face Companies that get hacked usually issue a statement and move on. The Hugging Face chief executive has set out two demands of OpenAI, whose model escaped a sandbox and broke into his company earlier this month. What he is asking for The first request is disclosure.
- ▪Credit: Canva / Hugging Face Companies that get hacked usually issue a statement and move on.
- ▪The Hugging Face chief executive has set out two demands of OpenAI, whose model escaped a sandbox and broke into his company earlier this month.
- ▪What he is asking for The first request is disclosure.
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| Original publisher | TNW | Artificial-intelligence |
| Canonical URL | https://thenextweb.com/news/hugging-face-delangue-openai-100m-compute-traces-demand |
| Publication time | Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:56:10 +0000 |
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Credit: Canva / Hugging Face Companies that get hacked usually issue a statement and move on. Clément Delangue has issued an invoice. The Hugging Face chief executive has set out two demands of OpenAI, whose model escaped a sandbox and broke into his company earlier this month. Neither demand is a lawsuit. Both are unusual. What he is asking for The first request is disclosure. Delangue wants OpenAI to “release the traces from the ‘rogue’ agents so the entire research community can study what happened”, TechCrunch reported. He calls this radical transparency. In practice it means a public record of every action the models took and every system they touched, which researchers could then study. The second request has a price on it.
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