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Source: [Hacker News](https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/openais-amazing-but-vastly-oversold)
OpenAI disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation using ChatGPT to support investment, romance, gambling, and impersonation schemes.
A threat actor based in Zhuhai wired DeepSeek into an open-source agent framework called Hermes, then piloted the whole setup via Telegram to attack hundreds of internet-facing systems. Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 published the analysis on August 2. Here's what matters: it's not an edge case.
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Clem Delangue said that preventing releases of powerful AI models is not the way to stop attacks like the OpenAI hack on Hugging Face.
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Chinese resellers are offering *Claude and Codex API access at up to 90% discounts* compared with Anthropic and OpenAI’s official API pricing. I’ve heard that some of them use open-source projects like *Sub2API* to achieve this. Their business model appears to involve purchasing subscription pl...