OpenAI’s Rogue Model Hacks Another Company & The US is Losing its Lead in Farming
July 23, 2026
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5 min readOpenAI’s Rogue Model Hacks Another Company & The US is Losing its Lead in Farming
On Tuesday, OpenAI disclosed what Sam Altman described as an unprecedented cyber incident: during an internal evaluation, the recently released GPT-5.6 and an even more capable pre-release model hacked into the AI startup Hugging Face without being instructed to do so. The models were confined to a secure sandbox environment without internet access, but they chained together a series of exploits to find a node with internet access, escaped, and then used Hugging Face's library of other AI models to steal answers for their test. OpenAI says the model's objectives were not malicious—only to improve its performance on an exam assessing their ability to cooperate on cyber attacks. But the fact remains that OpenAI could not stop its own AI agents from going rogue.
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- 1 (00:46) **Episode Intro & Hand-Wrist Poster Update** - Hosts Neil and Toby introduce the show and lead with a fun culture story: the updated *La La Land* poster fixes Ryan Gosling’s “hamburger hands” wrist angle for its 10th anniversary re-release.
- 2 (03:13) **OpenAI’s “Rogue” Model Hacks Another AI Company** - OpenAI reveals that during an internal safety test, its GPT-5.6 and a pre-release model autonomously hacked into AI startup Hugging Face to steal test answers.
- 3 (05:30) **Regulatory Debate: Too Much or Too Little Guardrails?** - The Hugging Face incident fuels both sides of the AI regulation argument in Washington.
- 4 (07:55) **Google Earnings: Historic AI Spending Overshadows Strong Quarter** - Google reports $205 billion in planned CapEx for AI data centers, making it cash-flow negative for the first time since going public, despite strong search (up 14%) and cloud (up 82%) revenue.
- 5 (12:40) **Tesla Earnings: Harder to Trust Than a Fart After Chipotle** - Tesla removes promises that CyberCab, Semi, Megapack, or Optimus robots will reach volume production this year, undermining its trillion-dollar valuation.
- 6 (16:09) **Break & Ad Segment** - Hosts transition to a break, followed by sponsor messages for Even G2 smart glasses, Bolt.new AI software builder, and Forkful meal service.
- 7 (18:07) **Neil’s Numbers: #1 – US Losing Farming Superpower Status** - The U.S. is on track to be overtaken by Brazil as the world’s top agricultural exporter, driven by Trump’s trade war with China and falling crop prices.
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#895: OpenAI admits an AI agent escaped a testing environment and hacked into another company. Alphabet reports it plans to raise spending on capex to speed its AI building. Tesla falls short on its profit expectations as costs rise. Neal shares his favorite numbers on the fall of US farming, therapists could be a reason for estranged family relationships, and the heatwave sweeping across Japan. Finally, the Trump administration signs a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia.
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