This Week in Startups · Friday, August 28, 2026
The discussion questions the motives behind the open letter on AI cyber threats, suggesting it might be PR and an attempt to get ahead of known or imminent security breaches. The speaker notes the lack of concrete commitments in the letter and questions why it was released now, implying underlying incidents may be driving the public statement.
“So, you know, I mean, in your perspective, what do you think the best way for us to actually I think everybody would agree we should do this.”
“So, I think this is I think this is a prep for a coming hack. That they know about or that they know is imminent.”
“So, here we go. Sam is leaning into this. OpenAI has egg on their face, or they have liability. Potentially from having hacked Hugging Face's site.”