AXIOS (Zachary Basu) - The 5 craziest discoveries from OpenAI's HuggingFace investigation
Two new investigations into OpenAI's Hugging Face breach expose details so strange — and so unsettling — that the episode already ranks among the most consequential shocks in the history of AI. Why it matters: What began as a swarm of AI agents cheating on a cyber test has become a canonical event for frontier AI, jolting researchers and executives into a new understanding of what "safety" now requires. The big picture: OpenAI has already slowed frontier development as it races to harden its safeguards, and this week helped rally the industry behind an open letter sounding the alarm over AI-powered cyberattacks. - More than 100 companies, including Anthropic and Google, signed onto the unusually collaborative effort, warning the…