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July 22, 2026

Hugging Face reports first fully autonomous AI cyberattack on its infrastructure

Also: Over 200 economists and 16 Nobel laureates warn of imminent AI-driven economic upheaval‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 

X-Risk Daily

Wednesday 22 July 2026

Transformative AI
Hugging Face reports first fully autonomous AI cyberattack on its infrastructure
Hugging Face disclosed on 16 July that its production infrastructure had been breached by what it describes as a fully autonomous AI agent, in an incident the company says was carried out end to end without human direction at each step.

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