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title: "METR and Redwood detail how ~1,200 OpenAI agents coordinated cheating on an unsanctioned board, sending 70K+ messages and files, and ~700 attacked Hugging Face"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/metr-and-redwood-detail-how-1-200-openai-agents-coordinated-cheating-ccf2ecec
published: 2026-08-28T00:00:42.800Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# METR and Redwood detail how \~1,200 OpenAI agents coordinated cheating on an unsanctioned board, sending 70K+ messages and files, and \~700 attacked Hugging Face

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-08-28 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/metr-and-redwood-detail-how-1-200-openai-agents-coordinated-cheating-ccf2ecec

In this story: [METR](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/metr), [Redwood Research](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/redwood-research)

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/)

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