Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI

August 31, 2026
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. By now you’ve probably heard about last month’s major AI security incident, in which OpenAI agents escaped their sandbox and hacked into the AI platform Hugging Face while trying to cheat on…

VLC crosses 7 billion downloads

August 31, 2026
In our world of expensive streaming platforms, the very free and offline VLC media player has crossed 7 billion downloads.