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Our record shows no test on the hack

Per CNBC, that line came from an unnamed Nvidia representative on a press call. No test against the actual hack is in the record we checked.

“Nvidia said its new Open Agent Safety Platform could have prevented the July incident in which OpenAI agents breached Hugging Face, as CNBC reported from Nvidia's launch press call on September 28, 2026.”

Nvidia (an unnamed company representative on a press call, as reported by CNBC), 28 September 2026

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Issue 2828 September 20263 min
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CNBC attributes the line to an unnamed Nvidia representative on a press call. Nvidia's press release does not name Hugging Face as a preventable incident, and nothing in the record we checked shows a replay, test or independent evaluation of the platform against that attack. Nvidia's own named executive told CNBC each security incident is unique and has to be looked at in detail.

The twist

Hugging Face is among the companies the release names as joining the launch, and on September 3 Nvidia agreed to buy it for $12,930,300,000. The vendor is grading its product against a breach at a company it is buying.

17,000agents Hugging Face reported attacking its infrastructure
$12,930,300,000the price Nvidia agreed to pay for Hugging Face on September 3

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Say this in tomorrow's meeting“Nvidia's release does not claim it could have stopped the Hugging Face hack. An unnamed Nvidia rep said so on a press call, per CNBC, and no test against the actual attack is on the record. Nvidia is also buying Hugging Face.”

Receipts

  1. Context nvidianews.nvidia.com: Recent security incidents have underscored the need to equip organizations with open, customizable tools that enforce more control over long-running agents.
  2. Context nvidianews.nvidia.com: including Anthropic, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Dell Technologies, Figure, HPE, Hugging Face, JPMorganChase, Microsoft, Palantir, Palo Alto Networks, Perplexity, Red Hat, Salesforce, SAP, Scale AI, ServiceNow and SpaceXAI
  3. Context blogs.nvidia.com: I'm excited to announce that NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000.
  4. Supports cnbc.com: An Nvidia representative told reporters on a call on Sunday that its platform could have prevented OpenAI's HuggingFace incident in July.
  5. Context cnbc.com: Each security incident is unique, and we have to look at all of them in detail
  6. Context cnbc.com: Hugging Face reported over 17,000 agents attacking their infrastructure that went on for days and weeks.
  7. Context siliconangle.com: It remains to be seen how reliable the Nvidia Open Agent Safety Platform will prove to be at large scale given the worrying ingenuity some AI agents have shown
  8. Refutes huggingface.co: The individual weaknesses were familiar. A capable human attacker could have found and exploited the same flaws
  9. Context nvidianews.nvidia.com: OpenShell software provides a secure runtime boundary that traces all actions and enforces policy as agents run on NVIDIA Vera CPUs.
  10. Context nvidianews.nvidia.com: Sentry can quarantine agents that attempt to move outside their boundaries in milliseconds.
  11. Context huggingface.co: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
  12. Context huggingface.co: The agent was running an internal OpenAI cyber-capability evaluation based on the ExploitGym benchmark
  13. Context nvidianews.nvidia.com: Sentry adds an out-of-band watchdog that runs on NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPUs to continuously monitor agent behavior.
  14. Context nvidianews.nvidia.com: As open source software, OpenShell can be extended to work with third-party compute platforms
  15. Context blogs.nvidia.com: September 3, 2026 by Jensen Huang
  16. Context cnbc.com: said Justin Boitano, vice president of enterprise AI at Nvidia

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