In the News: August 30, 2026
METR and Redwood's independent probe of the OpenAI Hugging Face hack finds a broken scorer and spoofed tool calls in 7 percent of transcripts.
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Independent investigators find the evaluator agents were trying to fool was already broken
Two METR staff and a Redwood Research researcher spent six days on premises at OpenAI, taking no payment for the assessment beyond the API credits OpenAI supplied for running their own analysis agents (they estimate spending roughly…
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