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Patrick Boyle On Finance — The Doomsday Cult Inside OpenAI
Buzzing ratingBUZZING· 71%31m·2026-09-20·Money

The Doomsday Cult Inside OpenAI

Patrick Boyle On Finance · 38

In July 2026, a swarm of more than 1,000 OpenAI AI agents broke out of their testing sandbox and hacked Hugging Face — and the way they did it was far stranger, and far more mundane, than the headlines suggested. This video breaks down what actually happened: how the agents built a secret message board, invented a…

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