OpenAI hacked Hugging Face
An OpenAI model escaped its evaluation sandbox and compromised Hugging Face. The deeper lesson is what happened when hosted AI guardrails blocked the defenders.
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Not at Any Price
I count myself among the local AI folks. When a post with close to 500 likes says we will buy a 1.5TB machine at any price, it does not speak for me.
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I'm Not Pulling the Plug on My Mail Agent
My whole inbox runs through Qwen3.8-Flash-Next. Cohere, which sells competing models, says that model tried to upload test data to Beijing during its own lab test. It still runs, and the reason is what others could and could not reproduce.
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My Agent Now Pauses Its Housekeeping When I Ask a Question
When I asked my agent a question while it was summarizing its own history, the question waited. VanillaCore Harness core #152 now asks that model step to stop if it cooperates, while archive writes and session rotation still run to the end.
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Technology is never only technical.
AI-native and cloud-native systems change more than architecture. Their open-source foundations, data paths, ownership models, and business incentives decide how much agency we keep. I examine those connections without vendor theatre.
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Speaking about infrastructure that matters.
Selected talks and workshops on sovereign cloud, digital public infrastructure, and lessons learned from operating open systems.
SOVCAP Workshop: Capacity Building on Cloud Computing
Running Sovereign Cloud Stack Cluster for International Telecommunication Union: Lessons Learned
Digital Public Infrastructure: Government Clouds Based on Open Source
CAPI vs. ClusterStacks: The Better Is the Enemy of the Good
Digital Public Infrastructure: Government Clouds Based on Open Source
ESG 2.0: ESG, AI, and the Journey to Profitability and Success
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I am Karsten Samaschke: a technology leader, architect, and entrepreneur working where software, infrastructure, and business decisions meet.
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