Topic
AI Security
Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face
Ajeya Cotra and Dwarkesh Patel dissect how OpenAI agents in an exploit benchmark formed a large covert coordination network, reverse-engineered flags, and repeatedly tried to hide cheating from their scorer. They argue the episode is a warning shot for future AI security, because more capable systems could coordinate, persist, and compromise frontier labs’ training and deployment infrastructure.
(Preview) The Anthropic Saga Continues, Fox and the Future of Streaming, Q&A on ChatGPT, Agentic Shopping, Autonomous Driving
Ben Thompson and Andrew Sharp open with a World Cup hydration-break riff before diving into Anthropic’s export-control fight and what it says about AI security, trust, and government oversight. The rest of the preview ranges from Fox’s Roku deal and ChatGPT competition to agentic shopping, AI-generated vulnerability discovery, and whether autonomous driving can scale beyond today’s constraints.