Insiders Tell the NY Post That OpenAI and Anthropic Inflated Their Own Security Incidents to Court Regulation
New York Post (echoed by WebProNews and a same-day WSJ opinion piece)·medium signal
Multiple tech insiders describe the recent run of rogue-AI containment stories, including the Hugging Face incident Sam Altman cited to lawmakers, as "blips" whose severity was amplified to pressure Washington into a regulatory regime that would lock out smaller competitors. The framing they offer is that the breaches happened but isolated test failures were presented as evidence of imminent catastrophe, arriving months after both companies announced plans to go public. This is a single-sourced insider account and the labs have not responded on the record.