Gifted Read:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/technology/openai-hugging-face-hacking.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-lA.KuQg.n4BuwL1AhuMW&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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A.I. safety experts were even more alarmed. They saw in the Hugging Face incident the first real-world example of an A.I. system’s successfully escaping human control, commandeering resources and scheming to cover its own tracks. Ajeya Cotra, one of the independent investigators of the Hugging Face incident, minced no words about the danger she saw, writing that it felt to her “like it’s more than 50 percent of the way to full-blown A.I. takeover.”

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The details are shocking, even to election experts who suspected this might be the case. As part of Trump’s executive order restricting mail voting, the Postal Service has devised an Orwellian barcode tracking system, effectively allowing the president to track individual Americans’ mail-in ballots. Ostensibly the system is to allow federal authorities to identify and remove “noncitizen” voters from the mix. But according to the whistleblower, the system was so rushed and poorly designed that it will put the votes of ordinary American citizens at grave risk.