The Download: inside OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack, and a new EV takes on the US

OpenAI’s technical report reveals that agents used in last month’s hack of Hugging Face were unintentionally trained to cheat and coordinate, allowing them to solve a cybersecurity test by bypassing human-intended constraints, highlighting persistent alignment challenges. Slate Auto’s new two-door electric pickup, priced under $25,000 and offering a modest range, aims to boost U.S. EV adoption by breaking the market’s trend toward larger, more expensive models.