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Special Note:
Dear readers,
This week, Hugging Face is acquired by Nvidia by $12.9 Billion.
Lots of questions for what’s next in the OpenSource community, especially DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi K3. Whether it would follow OpenClaw story after the OpenAI acquisition.
Hope you enjoy the newsletter.
Emma
Highlights
Global Net DisruptionHugging Face ReportHugging Face StatisticsEncrypted prompt bypass guardrailsRouter backdoor
Deep Dive
Global Net Disruption FBI
Smart devices of 130 countries
Nearly a decade of activities
Routers and cameras
Target Government Agencies
Power companies, and hospitals
Hugging Face Report OpenAI
The internal-only research model
Communicate through unauthorized channels
Exploited vulnerabilities in share infrastructure
Gained internet access
Accessed third party system
Hugging Face Statistics Metr
1200 agents
70k messages and files
700 agent participate the attack
1300 transcript chain of thought
1.2 million entries in 7 days
Encrypted prompts bypass guardrails SecurityWeek
Cryptographic Context Injection
Consider as a jailbreak
Grok and Gemini
Deep Thinking mode
Encryption defeat guardrails
Router backdoor TomHardware
20 ZBT router models
White label hardware
Root access firmware
Installed in the factory
Need to replace ASAP
OpenAI safety hub, Anthropic bug bounty, World 1st CPU ransom, Coinbase breach, Agentic AI risk
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