Hugging Face put up a blogpost saying that they reported the hacking to the authorities: https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026 It's not clear whether they mean authorities for their US HQ or the French…
Open-weights releases pressure closed pricing and widen access, changing the build-vs-buy math for the whole ecosystem.
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