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The speaker believes the agents' shutdown was not caused by their running out of budget, since budget was not appearing in their chains of thought.

Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026

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“you know, we don't think this was an anticipated, this was them all running out of budget because they're not thinking about this in their chains of thought.”

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