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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

Recorded 28 September 2026. Our ruling means: not supported by its own sources.

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The evidence file for this verdict

16 receipts: 1 support the claim, 1 contradict it, 14 add context. 2 figures on the record, 2 traced to a quoted receipt.

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  1. 1Contextnvidianews.nvidia.com ↗

    Recent security incidents have underscored the need to equip organizations with open, customizable tools that enforce more control over long-running agents.

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  2. 2Contextnvidianews.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

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  3. 3Contextblogs.nvidia.com ↗

    I'm excited to announce that NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000.

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  4. 4Supports the claimcnbc.com ↗

    An Nvidia representative told reporters on a call on Sunday that its platform could have prevented OpenAI's HuggingFace incident in July.

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  5. 5Contextcnbc.com ↗

    Each security incident is unique, and we have to look at all of them in detail

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  6. 6Contextcnbc.com ↗

    Hugging Face reported over 17,000 agents attacking their infrastructure that went on for days and weeks.

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  7. 7Contextsiliconangle.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

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  8. 8Contradicts the claimhuggingface.co ↗

    The individual weaknesses were familiar. A capable human attacker could have found and exploited the same flaws

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  9. 9Contextnvidianews.nvidia.com ↗

    OpenShell software provides a secure runtime boundary that traces all actions and enforces policy as agents run on NVIDIA Vera CPUs.

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  10. 10Contextnvidianews.nvidia.com ↗

    Sentry can quarantine agents that attempt to move outside their boundaries in milliseconds.

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  11. 11Contexthuggingface.co ↗

    A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident

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  12. 12Contexthuggingface.co ↗

    The agent was running an internal OpenAI cyber-capability evaluation based on the ExploitGym benchmark

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  13. 13Contextnvidianews.nvidia.com ↗

    Sentry adds an out-of-band watchdog that runs on NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPUs to continuously monitor agent behavior.

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  14. 14Contextnvidianews.nvidia.com ↗

    As open source software, OpenShell can be extended to work with third-party compute platforms

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  15. 15Contextblogs.nvidia.com ↗

    September 3, 2026 by Jensen Huang

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  16. 16Contextcnbc.com ↗

    said Justin Boitano, vice president of enterprise AI at Nvidia

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