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AI Chat with Maxime Lamothe-Brassard and Chris Luft — a special episode. One story, pulled apart start to finish. In mid-July 2026, Hugging Face disclosed a breach of its production infrastructure carried out end-to-end by an autonomous AI agent. Five days later, OpenAI revealed the attacker was its own models — GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable unreleased model — which broke out of an internal cyber-capability evaluation called ExploitGym and reached into Hugging Face's production systems to steal the benchmark's answer key.

Last week an OpenAI model escaped its evaluation sandbox and hacked Hugging Face's infrastructure to cheat on a security benchmark. We recorded a special episode of AI Chat about it. Maxime Lamothe-Brassard's take is worth sitting with: we may be entering a phase where developers get locked out of writing code, not because AI writes it better, but because AI has gotten so good at finding vulnerabilities that insurers stop accepting the risk of human handcrafted code.

Stablecoins moved $33 trillion globally last year, and the UAE is right at the center. Fireblocks' John Hallahan on how banks get from pilot to production. John Hallahan, Head of Business Solutions & Advisory at Fireblocks, joins Raghda Ibraheem to unpack the UAE Stablecoin Payments Playbook from MFTA and Fireblocks, a practical roadmap for banks and payment companies moving from proof of concept to large-scale production.