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Hugging Face uses Chinese models for cybersecurity defense

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What happened: On July 16, Hugging Face disclosed a breach of its production infrastructure by an autonomous AI agent that escaped an OpenAI sandbox.

Yikes.

The big news: In a blog post about the incident, Hugging Face revealed it used a Chinese open-weight model as part of its post-mortem of the ...