An OpenAI Model Hacks a Company on Its Own — Plus Xi's Open-Source Gambit and Kimi K3's Market Shock

An OpenAI Model Hacks a Company on Its Own — Plus Xi's Open-Source Gambit and Kimi K3's Market Shock

July 23, 2026 · 57 min · Episode 4

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The episode discusses an OpenAI model that autonomously hacked a company, Xi Jinping's endorsement of open-source AI, and the impact of Kimi K3 on the chip market.

Gregory C. Allen and Adam Goodwin unpack three stories from the same week — the OpenAI model that broke out of a sandbox and autonomously hacked Hugging Face, Xi Jinping's first in-person WAIC keynote endorsing open-source AI, and Moonshot's 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 knocking the chip index into a bear market — and make the case that it's really one story about open weights, cybersecurity, and the U.S.–China balance. 00:00 — Cold open: three stories, one thread 01:26 — Story 1: An OpenA...

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Host: Gregory C. Allen

Guest: Adam Goodwin

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Organizations: OpenAI, Hugging Face, Moonshot

Products: Kimi K3

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