By Emma Whitford ( July 22, 2026, 21:36 GMT | Insight) -- An autonomous OpenAI agent’s hack into Hugging Face, a repository of open source AI models, underscores the need to adequately resource the United States’ frontier model assessment body, US Representative Jay Obernolte said. A White House official said the team could “certainly benefit” from more resources, but that hiring is difficult. An autonomous OpenAI agent’s hack into Hugging Face, a repository of open source AI models, underscores the need to adequately resource the United States’ frontier model assessment body, US Representative Jay Obernolte said. A White House official said the team could “certainly benefit” from more resources, but that hiring is difficult....
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