Three Buddy Problem·Sep 4, 2026·2h 7m

Three Secret AI Civilizations Rose and Fell. Nobody Checked the Logs.

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(Presented by TLPBLACK: A cybersecurity intelligence platform focused on sharing curated, high-sensitivity threat insights and research with trusted security professionals.)

Three Buddy Problem - Episode 112: The 'OpenAI hacks Hugging Face' fallout has turned into a story about AI civilizations rising from the ashes, politicians calling for super-intelligence bans, and the emergence of well-funding non-profits doing AI safety work. Who are these people and what's their security expertise?

Plus, GPT-6 Astra lands in a trusted-access program nobody can get into, Costin ranks the local models he runs next to his desk, and CrowdStrike sinkholes a botnet that's been alive since 2003.

Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu.

Timestamps:
0:00 Introductory banter
1:02 Conference season: LabsCon, Offensive AI Con, Countermeasure
5:40 The Hugging Face story hits the front page
7:04 Dwarkesh, Greenblatt, and the AI-pilled framing
11:51 Swap "agents" for "Python" and the panic goes away
16:34 Does anyone actually know what happened?
21:18 Bernie Sanders wants to ban superintelligence
34:03 Defending against swarms: the 2026 SOC
39:15 Logs, Splunk, and the business model in the way
44:11 What EDR vendors are actually building with AI
56:16 The security poverty line and the endgame
1:07:53 GPT-6 Astra, Fable 5.1, and local model rankings
1:27:25 Google's Fairwind, CodeMender, and agents running Linux
1:45:31 Apple's bet on local inference
1:53:21 The Sality takedown and endgame advice

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( Presented by TLPBLACK : A cybersecurity intelligence platform focused on sharing curated, high-sensitivity threat insights and research with trusted security professionals. ) Three Buddy Problem - Episode 112 : The 'OpenAI hacks Hugging Face' fallout has turned into a story about AI civilizations rising from the ashes, politicians calling for super-intelligence bans, and the emergence of well-funding non-profits doing AI safety work. Who are these people and what's their security expertise? Plus, GPT-6 Astra lands in a trusted-access program nobody can get into, Costin ranks the local models he runs next to his desk, and CrowdStrike sinkholes a botnet that's been alive since 2003. Cast: Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade , Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu . Timestamps: 0:00 Introductory banter 1:02 Conference season: LabsCon, Offensive AI Con, Countermeasure 5:40 The Hugging Face story hits the front page 7:04 Dwarkesh, Greenblatt, and the AI-pilled framing 11:51 Swap "agents" for "Python" and the panic goes away 16:34 Does anyone actually know what happened? 21:18 Bernie Sanders wants to ban superintelligence 34:03 Defending against swarms: the 2026 SOC 39:15 Logs, Splunk, and the business model in the way 44:11 What EDR vendors are actually building with AI 56:16 The security poverty line and the endgame 1:07:53 GPT-6 Astra, Fable 5.1, and local model rankings 1:27:25 Google's Fairwind, CodeMender, and agents running Linux 1:45:31 Apple's bet on local inference 1:53:21 The Sality takedown and endgame advice Links: Transcript TLPBLACK The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? Reuters: OpenAI agents hijacked German website Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board Security Incidents at METR Bernie Sanders Intros Legislation to Ban Artificial Superintelligence Open AI: Path to Astra Safety overview: GPT-6 Astra (OpenAI) Top local AI models for CTI workflows (Costin Raiu) Google Fairwind Limited Access Program Anthropic Ships Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 Inside the Sality Botnet Disruption Operation (CrowdStrike) Getting AI Agents to tell on themselves (Thinkst) LABScon 2026 Speakers Ringzer0 COUNTERMEASURE