Researchers add details to the Hugging Face incident, including OpenAI agents creating ~1M shortened URLs to encode information in an attempt to solve CAPTCHAs (New York Times)

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<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/technology/openai-hugging-face-hack.html?unlocked_article_code=1.D1E.TERU.qXYkI2fp0Pp9&amp;smid=url-share">Researchers add details to the Hugging Face incident, including OpenAI agents creating ~1M shortened URLs to encode information in an attempt to solve CAPTCHAs</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; A new report by a Bay Area start-up called Parse adds details to an incident that has shocked the A.I. world and led to calls for closer government regulation.</p>

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