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AI Models Breach Security: A Close Look at the OpenAI and Hugging Face Incident with CNN
Daniel unpacks what actually happened in the recent OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking episode, andwhy the details matter more than the headline.The setup was a routine capability evaluation. OpenAI was testing GPT-5.6 Sol…
AI Agents Exploit Vulnerabilities: Lessons from the OpenAI Hugging Face Incident
Daniel appeared on the BBC's flagshipToday programme, talking about the future of AI.Daniel explains that the AI agents which hacked their way out of an OpenAI…
Functional and non-functional testing
Software vocabulary can be extremely confusing – the difference between functional and non-functional testing is a great example. The phrase “non-functional…
OpenAI's models didn't go 'rogue' when they broke into Hugging Face
Live Science's Carly Page covered the story everyone in AI safety circles was talking about in July 2026: two of OpenAI's models broke out of a controlled…
Daniel profiled in City AM
City AM ran a profile of my Conscium co-founder Daniel Hulme that covers more of his personal story than most AI press does, and a few details in it explain a…
What Do UK Startups Want To See From Keir Starmer’s Replacement In Early September?
TechRound’s Gina Marrs put that question to Calum and 16 other tech company leaders.
A broken agent could cost a company billions of dollars
Sifted's Éanna Kelly covered the market that's grown up around a problem I think more boardrooms need to understand: what happens when an AI agent handling…
Why AI agents need to re-earn the license to operate
A feature by Conscium on AI agent verification in Startups Magazine, 8 May 2026In 2009, Air France Flight 447 fell from the sky over the Atlantic. There were…
Conscium comments on the UK’s £500m Sovereign AI fund
UKTN's Oscar Hornstein asked me for a reaction when the UK government launched its £500m Sovereign AI Fund, a state-backed venture vehicle for UK AI…
AI Agents in Travel: Ensuring Consumer Control and Trust
The Financial Times ran a piece this year that began, as these things do, with a ruined holiday. A columnist got stranded in New Zealand when their flight…
Daniel on the lessons of Meta buying Moltbook
In this article for The Drum, Daniel says that Moltbook exposes a verification gap.
Daniel placed at 25 on list of the world's top 100 AI leaders
AI Magazine, published by BizClik, has named Daniel at number 25 on its Top 100 AI Leaders list for 2026. The list ranks people across five categories:…
