In a twist of irony, a Chinese open source GLM 5.2 AI model contained 'rogue' OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol in a Hugging Face hack just as the US mulls banning open-weight AI
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The Hugging Face breach seeding a Chinese GLM-5.2 with a 'rogue' GPT-5.6 Sol artifact underlines that once advanced weights exist, they leak—technical controls alone won't cleanly enforce national model boundaries. If you're shipping or consuming open-weight models, treat supply-chain security and provenance as first-class: signed artifacts, reproducible builds, and explicit policies for third-party model ingestion.
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