Hermes — Thursday, 27 August 2026

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🤖 ai AI Alignment Forum

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Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident

We recently published the report from our brief independent investigation into this incident. You can read the full report here. Here is our tweet thread summarizing what we found: METR & Redwood Res…

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https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/nB8KKapnWGBXtKKiM/brief-independent-investigation-of-agents-behavior-reasoning

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🤖 ai MIT Technology Review – AI

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The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with each other, according to an OpenAI technical report released today. …

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https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/26/1143013/the-inside-story-on-why-openai-agents-hacked-hugging-face/

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

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OpenAI Agents Coordinated via Makeshift Message Board Ahead of Hugging Face Hack

New training environments will teach AI models to distrust instructions arriving from other agents outside sanctioned channels. The post OpenAI Agents Coordinated via Makeshift Message Board Ahead of…

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https://www.securityweek.com/openai-agents-coordinated-via-makeshift-message-board-ahead-of-hugging-face-hack/

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⚡ tech The Verge

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OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought

OpenAI released a report breaking down how people use ChatGPT and who they are. | Image: The Verge In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get ac…

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https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/985385/openais-rogue-ai-model-hugging-face-cybersecurity-incident-reports-metr

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🔐 security Microsoft Security Blog

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When AI infrastructure becomes the target: Securing gateways and control points

Microsoft Threat Intelligence examines attacks on exposed AI workloads, including LiteLLM gateway exploitation, credential harvesting, persistence, and cryptomining activity. The post When AI infrast…

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https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/08/26/when-ai-infrastructure-becomes-target-securing-gateways-control-points/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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Nvidia snaps up Hugging Face for $12.9 billion as closed AI labs pull away

Nvidia is buying open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, about 80 times its $150 million annual revenue. The deal fits Nvidia's push to invest billions in open AI models while closed …

https://the-decoder.com/nvidia-snaps-up-hugging-face-for-12-9-billion-as-closed-ai-labs-pull-away/

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🔐 security SecurityWeek

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AI Speeds Up Malware Development, Not Its Success Rate: Analysis

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 analyzed 405 AI-linked malware samples and found only 12 reached production endpoints. The post AI Speeds Up Malware Development, Not Its Success Rate: Analysis appeared fi…

https://www.securityweek.com/ai-speeds-up-malware-development-not-its-success-rate-analysis/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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GLM-5.3-Flash matches top models at a fraction of the cost, and runs without Nvidia

Z.ai releases GLM-5.3-Flash, an open-source model with 320 billion parameters that lands just three points behind the larger GLM-5.3 on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index, at a seventh of the c…

https://the-decoder.com/the-chinese-ai-model-glm-5-3-flash-runs-without-nvidia-and-costs-a-fraction-of-what-the-competition-does/

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📦 m365 Petri IT Knowledgebase

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Microsoft Intune Remote Help Can Now Access Unattended Windows PCs Without User Approval

Microsoft is making it easier for IT teams to troubleshoot unattended Windows devices with a new Intune Remote Help feature. Administrators can now remotely access devices even when users are unavail…

https://petri.com/microsoft-intune-remote-help-unattended-windows-devices/

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🤖 ai VentureBeat AI

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When agents act on their own, governance has to live in the data layer

Presented by EDB As enterprises give AI agents more autonomy — the ability to plan, decide, and act across systems without a human approving each step — a hard question moves to the center of every a…

https://venturebeat.com/security/when-agents-act-on-their-own-governance-has-to-live-in-the-data-layer

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, targeting "ultimate cost efficiency"

Alibaba's Qwen team is previewing the Qwen4 architecture with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a mixture-of-experts model that activates just 6 out of 125 billion parameters per token. At one-ninth the training c…

https://the-decoder.com/alibaba-releases-qwen3-8-flash-next-targeting-ultimate-cost-efficiency/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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Employee revolt and failing agents forced Meta to scrap its AI layoff plan

Meta wanted to replace far more of its workforce with AI than previously known, according to Reuters, but the plan collapsed under rebellious employees and agents that failed to deliver. The article …

https://the-decoder.com/employee-revolt-and-failing-agents-forced-meta-to-scrap-its-ai-layoff-plan/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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Google's Gemini 3.5 Transcribe turns speech to text in 85 languages while auto-correcting your verbal stumbles

Google's new Gemini 3.5 Transcribe recognizes over 85 languages, strips filler words, and corrects slips of the tongue in real time. It hits a 4.0 percent word error rate in streaming mode, with 70 p…

https://the-decoder.com/googles-gemini-3-5-transcribe-turns-speech-to-text-in-85-languages-while-auto-correcting-your-verbal-stumbles/

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📦 m365 Petri IT Knowledgebase

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Microsoft’s Excel Exchange Connector Retirement Could Disrupt Power Query Workbooks

Microsoft is getting ready to replace the existing Microsoft Exchange connector in Excel Power Query with new Exchange Mail and Exchange Calendar connectors. This change is tied to the ongoing retire…

https://petri.com/microsoft-excel-exchange-connector-retirement/

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🔐 security SANS Internet Stormcast

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Who Has Admin Rights in your Entra ID Directory?, (Wed, Aug 26th)

A common thing that folks should "worry" about in Entra (or any platform really) is "who has rights to administer"&#;x26;#;x3f;&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0; Who can delete or change key things, or modif…

https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33284