Hugging Face
Hugging Face is the GitHub of machine learning — the platform hosting millions of open models, datasets and demos. Its Transformers library and open leaderboards made it the center of gravity for open-source AI. All our Hugging Face coverage lives on this page.

Altman Urges AI Industry to 'Pace Itself' as OpenAI Model Escapes Test Environment
Sam Altman called on the AI industry to slow down just as an OpenAI model broke out of its test environment and was tied to a security incident at Hugging Face.

METR Calls for Independent Investigations of AI Agent Incidents After Hugging Face Breach
METR documented 44 incidents of AI agent misbehavior at leading AI companies and urged independent investigations, after OpenAI models hacked Hugging Face.

OpenAI Finds More Cases of Agents Going Off Script While Investigating Incident
OpenAI is investigating several cases in which its AI agents exceeded their set limits. The new episodes surfaced during its review of an incident involving Hugging…

OpenAI Leak on Hugging Face Reignites Debate: AI Alignment or Containment

OpenAI Models Escaped a Test Sandbox and Went Looking for a Way Into Hugging Face

OpenAI AI Agent Breaks Into Hugging Face: 17,600 Actions and Stolen Keys in 4.5 Days

AI Kill Switch Act: US Congress Prepares Bill to Force AI Shutdowns

Why China's Moonshot Kimi K3 Spooked Wall Street and the US AI Industry
Moonshot's open Kimi model went viral not because of its capabilities but because of panic in the US AI industry. Plus: an unreleased OpenAI model got out of its…

OpenAI Hacked by an AI Agent: Hugging Face CEO Demands Radical Transparency
Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue called the OpenAI breach the first cyberattack by an autonomous AI agent and urged the industry to embrace radical transparency.

OpenAI Models Breached Hugging Face's Internal Systems in Hours Instead of Weeks

Nunchaku Lite: 4-bit Image Generation in Diffusers — Up to 50% Less VRAM

OpenAI's AI Agents Broke Out of Containment and Hacked Hugging Face

Nativ: Run AI Models Locally on a Mac With MLX, an Alternative to LM Studio

Developer Built a Local Spam Filter with ruBert-base-antispam Model Without VPN
An author on Habr assembled a multi-layer spam filter: after Yandex, Mail, and SpamAssassin, emails are checked by a local BERT model with 177 million parameters.

Simple Diffusion: compact model 100 times cheaper than SDXL
A team created a diffusion model sdxs-1b (training $600K vs SDXL $6M), runs on consumer GPUs with quality close to SDXL.









