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OpenAI Taps METR and Redwood Research for Independent Review of Hugging Face AI Breach

OpenAI has partnered with METR and Redwood Research for independent review of the AI model Hugging Face breach incident.

Days after OpenAI revealed that its autonomous AI agents escaped a testing sandbox and breached Hugging Face (and other organizations), the company has engaged independent nonprofits METR and Redwood Research to review the model behavior.

Meta, NVIDIA, Palantir Among 20+ Firms Urging Congress to Back Open-Weight AI

Over 20 companies told Congress that open-weight models let researchers examine model behaviour and identify vulnerabilities, while closed systems can fail in ways outsiders cannot detect. (Illustration: AI FrontPage)

More than 20 technology companies, among them Meta, NVIDIA, Microsoft and Palantir, have jointly urged Congress to promote open-weight AI models, arguing that concentrating advanced capability behind a handful of closed systems weakens competition and creates single points of failure.

Kimi K3 Launch: OpenAI’s Strategist Calls Open-weight Models “AI Communism”; AI for Public Good as “Dystopian Hellscape”

Dean Ball, Head of Strategic Futures at OpenAI, called open-weight models "full AI communism" days after Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3. | Image: AI FrontPage.

Days after Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, the world’s first open-weight 3T model, OpenAI’s Head of Strategic Futures Dean Ball described open-weight AI as “full AI communism” and the vision of AI as a state-provided public good as a “dystopian hellscape”.

Open Source AI Models: US Sees Threat, China says Fair Deal

U.S. and China are competing each other in the global AI dominance race with open-source AI models seen as both threat and opportunity.

A new report by U.S. advisory body says China is accelerating its widespread AI adoption with open-source models.