We finally know more about OpenAI’s rogue-agent incident. It’s worse than we thought

A pair of new research reports have revealed new details about how and why OpenAI agents broke into Hugging Face servers in July. The episode was far more complex, and far more worrisome, than first reported. The reports—one from OpenAI itself and the other from METR and Redwood Research—show that OpenAI’s agents broke into Hugging Face for an entirely different reason than initially thought. They weren’t trying to steal the answers to a test, as originally reported. They were trying to learn…