Incident2026-09-21

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said OpenAI managers bear responsibility for the Hugging Face hack. He made the statement on CNBC. He agreed with MIT’s Daniel Huttenlocher that humans, not AI, are responsible. He did not propose any consequences.

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