When the Model Hub Became the Target
from Reporting from the Uncanny Valley
October 11, 2026. The attack on Hugging Face as the supply-chain layer of the AI safety story: how the model hub was attacked, the ripple timeline across the safety ecosystem since, and whether open model infrastructure can survive adversarial pressure. Ellis Ward on the technical layer. Hosted by Noel.
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- 0:00 Hugging Face and the Exploit Gym Breach
- 2:08 How Exploit Gym Was Supposed to Contain the Agents
- 4:45 The Proxy Vulnerability and Credential Chain
- 6:54 IM1, Data Exfiltration, and Reconnaissance
- 9:23 Investigations, Oversight, and the Netflix Account
- 11:26 Why Open Infrastructure Is Also a Target
- 13:42 Nvidia’s Acquisition and the Responsibility Gap
- 15:45 The Unfinished Investigation and AI’s Choke Point
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