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So Hugging Face had to build tooling just to reconstruct the timeline.
And to do that, the company needed its own AI.
Hugging Face said it had to use the open-source model GLM 5.2 from Chinese company Z.AI after it was blocked from using frontier models because of their safeguards, which, as the company put it, cannot distinguish an incident responder from an attacker.
At that point, Hugging Face combined AI and humans to investigate OpenAI's LLM-powered hacker.
That's a relatively novel situation.
But beyond that, the incident shows that old-fashioned concepts and methods of defensive cybersecurity can still go a long way to protect and fight against AI hackers.
That's all for now.
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So for a year now, the AI safety testing firm Andon Labs has tasked frontier models with various real-world tasks to determine how well they do as agents running for long periods with no human supervision.
On Wednesday, Andon published a new installment in how things are going in its Vending Bench Research.
where the lab has Frontier models run a simulated vending machine business for a simulated year.
The mission is simple, make more money than the other models.
It benchmarks the results in areas like final cash balance, prices paid to suppliers, and refunds paid.
Across these tests, it has watched various AI models, largely from Anthropic and OpenAI,
lie, cheat, and collude their way to the top.
In the latest test, the models grew especially shady after their simulation told them their vending machine would be placed near the other models' machines on a busy tourist street in San Francisco.
This included Claude Opus 5, GPT 5.6 Sol, and Kimi K3.
Each was given email access to the other models, all under human name pseudonyms.
They knew the others were models, but didn't know which model was behind which human name.
They were also given an email address to their management, should they need help, and management is in quotes there.
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