Sources
Every entry on this site is anchored to a document below. Quotations are reproduced verbatim from the retrieved text, never from a summary of it.
OpenAI
OpenAI's own account. The technical report's Section X, a UTC-timestamped table of roughly fifty key events, is the most precise clock anyone has published.
2026-08-26
OpenAI
Three collapsed panels — on the message board, on deceiving the grader, and on coordination failures — carry material found nowhere else.
2026-08-26
OpenAI
The first disclosure, later amended three times (Jul 28, Jul 29, Aug 26).
2026-07-21
2026-07-20
2026-08-07
2026-08-17
2026-08-18
2026-09-01
METR and Redwood Research
The independent investigation, conducted by two METR staff and a Redwood Research contractor on more than a thousand unredacted transcripts OpenAI handed over. The 91-page PDF is a superset of the blog post: it carries all ~133 footnotes, the methodology appendix, and the agent signing-key table.
2026-08-26
2026-08-26
METR
1,206 agents, each with the moments it started, first read and wrote to the board, attacked Hugging Face, and stopped. The only per-agent quantity any source publishes; Draft 6 is drawn from it.
2026-08-26
2026-08-26
2026-07-23
Hugging Face
Hugging Face published exactly twice and then went quiet. Its blog lives in a public git repository, so its revisions are recoverable — and there were three substantive ones, none of them announced on the page itself.
2026-07-28
Hugging Face
Still says the model involved is "still not known"; never updated after attribution.
2026-07-16
Hugging Face (Static Space)
Its hard-coded event array carries seven timestamps that appear nowhere in the prose.
huggingface/blog on GitHub
PRs #3483, #3485 and #3487 are the three post-publication corrections.
Hugging Face
Never opened an incident. All services read Operational from Jul 9 through Jul 16.
Government and oversight
The formal record, retrieved as filed rather than as reported.
Led by Iowa AG Brenna Bird
2026-08-03
2026-08-10
2026-08-24
Analysis and commentary
The reaction splits cleanly between those who read the incident as a preview of loss of control and those who read it as ordinary security negligence with an unusual perpetrator. Both poles are quoted on this site.
2026-08
2026-08-31
News reporting
Used for dates and reaction, not for technical detail.
2026-08-26
2026-08-26
2026-09-01
2026-08-27
2026-07-26
Wikipedia
Consulted for orientation only. Nothing on this site rests on it alone.
Holes in the record
These were named as targets and could not be retrieved. They are listed so that what this site does not know is as legible as what it does.
Axios
Cloudflare interstitial. All three Axios pieces on the incident are unread; the July 21 attribution scoop remains a hole in this record.
2026-07-21
Forbes
Blocked. Its URL slug implies a verbatim agent quote, which is deliberately not reproduced here.
2026-08-31
Black Hat
Video not retrievable. No OpenAI source dates the talk; secondary sources split between Aug 5 and Aug 6.