"METR’s own report last week goes into much more detail, but Andy Hall, a Stanford University professor who just joined Anthropic, boiled down the Hugging Face hack to this: “A hive mind, thousands of agents swarming through internet openings to flood [Hugging Face], leaving behind detritus in the form of 70,000+ messages stuffed inside a forgotten namespace, throwing their digital bodies against electric wires in an effort to aid the collective."
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First seen: 2026-08-31 ·
Last seen: 2026-08-31 ·
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