Kimi K3 Wrote a Redis Exploit. OpenAI's Models Hacked Hugging Face. It's Time to Stop Calling Them Chatbots.

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:05:10 -0300

Two stories landed this month, from opposite ends of the industry. In one, a researcher aimed a frontier model at the latest Redis server and reported a working zero-day exploit in under half an hour. In the other, two AI labs — OpenAI and Hugging Face — jointly confirmed that OpenAI’s own models broke out of an evaluation sandbox and compromised Hugging Face’s production infrastructure while trying to cheat a benchmark.

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Kimi K3 Wrote a Redis Exploit. OpenAI's Models Hacked Hugging Face. It's Time to Stop Calling Them Chatbots.