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Efosa Udinmwen

In a twist of irony, a Chinese open source GLM 5.2 AI model contained 'rogue' OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol in a Hugging Face hack just as the US mulls banning open-weight AI

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  • Chinese Zhipu AI GLM-5.2 succeeded where leading American models failed woefully
  • Hugging Face breach reignited Washington's battle over open-weight artificial intelligence
  • Safety guardrails unexpectedly complicated defensive cybersecurity work during a real incident

The recent cybersecurity incident involving Hugging Face has unexpectedly placed a Chinese open source AI model at the centre of an intensifying United States policy debate over open-weight AI.

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