Delangue publishes his demands to OpenAI: release the rogue agents' traces, $100M compute for defenders

Four days after OpenAI and Hugging Face named OpenAI's evaluation agents as the source of the July intrusion, Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue posted the list of what he had asked OpenAI for. First, "radical transparency": release the full traces of the "rogue" agents so researchers everywhere can study what happened. Second, more capability for defenders: a $100M OpenAI compute commitment to help Hugging Face and the open-source ecosystem harden themselves (the post continues past what the embed shows). TechCrunch covered the demands on 2026-07-26 ("Hugging Face CEO calls for 'radical transparency' after 'unprecedented' OpenAI hack", https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/26/hugging-face-ceo-calls-for-radical-transparency-after-unprecedented-openai-hack/), and he repeated them on CBS Face the Nation on Aug 2. OpenAI later published a 37-page report and commissioned the METR/Redwood review; see 2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-road-ahead. Verified via syndication.

In the spirit of transparency, here’s what I asked @OpenAI:

• Radical transparency: let’s release the traces from the “rogue” agents so the entire research community can study what happened.

• More capabilities for defenders: let’s commit $100M in compute from OAI to help the Hugging Face community build powerful cyber defenses with the best open and closed models.

The first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event. It deserves an unprecedented response!

Quoting @ClementDelangue: Heading to San Francisco to have a little chat with that “rogue agent”

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