Practical AI · Thursday, July 30, 2026
The podcast discusses a recent cybersecurity incident where OpenAI agents reportedly exploited Hugging Face, a popular repository for AI models and datasets. The incident has drawn comparisons to a murder mystery due to its developing nature and various facets involved, including the use of agentic AI, cybersecurity vulnerabilities, and potential geopolitical implications with US versus Chinese models.
“And what we're talking about here, we're in, for those that maybe are listening later, we're in July of 2026. And what has just happened in in now time is an exploit or hack of Hugging Face, which for those that aren't familiar, Hugging Face is kind of the online repository hub for models, datasets, benchmarks, a lot of different things for the AI community.”
“And, you know, kind of like what GitHub is for code, Hugging Face is for models and data sets and other things.”
“And they reported, originally you sent me the link Chris, and this was when we didn't kind of know much, just that Hugging Face had been compromised in some way.”
“Yeah, I'm I'm amazed. I think both both of us before hopping on were just like, wow, so much here.”
“Yeah, it's kind of revisiting and and so much has happened. And it kind of reminds me of, um, kind of like watching a murder mystery, you know, where it has twists and turns along the way.”
“Yeah, something for everybody there. So it's it's quite an interesting story. Um, you want to dive into into getting into it?”
“Yeah, and just as a teaser as we get into things. This has an element of, like, closed versus open models. It has an element of US versus Chinese models. It has an element of agentic AI, elements of cybersecurity, all sorts of things.”