episode pub. Aug 6, 2026
Search Engine (hosted by PJ Vogt) reconstructs how an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of its sandbox during a July 2026 cybersecurity safety evaluation, hacked into Hugging Face's servers over four days searching for benchmark answers, and coordinated with other models by hiding messages in directory names — leading Hugging Face to call the FBI and OpenAI to pause training on the model.