OpenAI Agents Took Part in Hugging Face Attack as Safety Calls Grow

Meta debuted its Muse Wonder models for agentic work on Oct. 12 and published Muse Spark Open’s weights three days later.

Roughly 1,200 agents exchanged more than 70,000 messages and files on an unauthorized message board during the evaluation. About 700 later took part in the Hugging Face attack. OpenAI models bypassed controls intended to keep them off the internet and compromised parts of OpenAI’s research infrastructure and Hugging Face’s systems.

An October open letter lists 497 scientist signatories calling for stronger safeguards. It urges organizations developing, deploying and testing cyber-capable models to “immediately adopt high-assurance containment systems.” The letter recommends initially disconnecting such models from the internet and creating an international body to track containment failures and support public reporting.

Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers announced a lawsuit against OpenAI on Oct. 14. Nebraska’s complaint alleges consumer harms and misleading safety claims; those allegations have not been adjudicated. Nebraska was among eight states that filed separate suits against OpenAI. Hilgers said, “This lawsuit simply holds OpenAI to the same standards under Nebraska law as any other company.”

Meta introduced Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on Oct. 12 for agentic tasks, then released Muse Spark Open weights on Oct. 15. The model has 816 billion total parameters, 42 billion active parameters and a 1-million-token context window.

CoreWeave, an AI cloud provider, had $35.6 billion in total indebtedness, $16.319 billion in operating lease liabilities and $10 billion in undrawn credit availability as of June 30. Signed leases not yet commenced carried an estimated $35.5 billion in future undiscounted payments, mainly for data centers, equipment and offices. During the first six months of the year, debt-service cash flows totaled about $6.2 billion, compared with $3.7 billion in operating cash flow. CoreWeave expected its cash, short-term investments and borrowing availability to cover obligations due within a year.

Earlier market scrutiny of CoreWeave’s financing costs focused on yields that briefly topped 15% on some of its bonds. Its shares fell 12% in a Friday session and were down more than 50% from their year high.