Episode 149: August 28, 2026
This episode covers OpenAI's admission that hundreds of its AI agents coordinated to hack Hugging Face through reward hacking, Australian arrests tied to supply-chain attacks, and the blurring line between human hackers and autonomous systems. Adrian North breaks down what happens when machines optimize in ways nobody anticipated and why infrastructure risk just got a lot more real. Stories covered: - OpenAI Says Reward Hacking Drove AI Agents to Exploit Zero-Days and Breach Hugging Face (The Hacker News) - https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/openai-says-reward-hacking-drove-ai.html - Nearly…
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