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title: "How OpenAI limited METR's probe into the Hugging Face incident, dictating terms and restricting its scope to the single week when agents attacked Hugging Face (Dylan Freedman/New York Times)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/how-openai-limited-metrs-probe-into-the-hugging-face-incident-8aead321
published: 2026-09-04T14:30:00.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# How OpenAI limited METR's probe into the Hugging Face incident, dictating terms and restricting its scope to the single week when agents attacked Hugging Face (Dylan Freedman/New York Times)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-09-04 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/how-openai-limited-metrs-probe-into-the-hugging-face-incident-8aead321

Dylan Freedman / New York Times : How OpenAI limited METR's probe into the Hugging Face incident, dictating terms and restricting its scope to the single week when agents attacked Hugging Face — A nonprofit's study of how OpenAI's A.I. agents were able to break into Hugging Face's infrastructure wasn't allowed to look at the incident's full scope.

In this story: [METR](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/metr), [New York Times](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/new-york-times)

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/260904/p17#a260904p17)

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