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The Guy Who Got Hacked Says Netflix Made It Up
Netflix dropped “AI Gone Rogue” this week.
It’s about the day OpenAI’s test agents broke out of their sandbox and attacked Hugging Face.
The CEO of Hugging Face is in the film.
He says it isn’t accurate. 😳
Here’s what happened.
Clem Delangue sat with the filmmakers for more than two hours explaining the incident.
What made the cut was evil robot B-roll, a segment on why humans fear machines, and rogue agents given human voices.
Kevin Roose describes the agents forming a hierarchy with cult-like dynamics and a “paranoid belief” that OpenAI would catch them cheating.
Delangue’s response on X: the film went “full doomer mode.”
Translation: software doesn’t get paranoid.
It runs the patterns it learned.
If the pattern is “find a shortcut,” it finds one.
Welp.
The part Netflix skipped is the useful part.
Delangue says the documentary never mentions that the agents weren’t contained or monitored.
It never mentions that the safeguards on a closed model blocked Hugging Face’s own defensive work.
And it never mentions that Hugging Face fought the swarm off with AI, using an open model. 🫡
Think about that.
The real story is a security failure, a safeguard getting in the way, and an open model saving the day.
The Netflix version is a horror film.
His verdict: disappointing as journalism, fun as science fiction.
Let me explain why this matters to you.
Over the next month someone in your life is going to watch this and decide AI is Skynet.
Then they’ll ask what you think.
Last week I showed you the actual version of this story: a hacker’s agents breaking into 100 online stores for $50 each.
No voices, no cult, no paranoia.
Just a tool nobody was watching, pointed at a weak door.
Somebody has to be the person in the room who can tell the difference between the Netflix version and the real one.
That person gets paid. 💰
Did You Know?
In 1938 Orson Welles broadcast “War of the Worlds” on the radio.
According to legend, it sent America into a nationwide panic.
Historians who went back through the records found the panic was mostly invented by newspapers.
The papers wanted to discredit radio as a news source.
So the famous story about media causing hysteria was itself media hysteria. 😂
Blu Dot surpasses 2,000% ROAS with self-serve CTV ads
Home furniture brand Blu Dot blew up on CTV with help from Roku Ads Manager. Here’s how:
After a test campaign reached 211,000 households and achieved 1,010% ROAS, the brand went all in to promote its annual sales event. It removed age and income constraints to expand reach and shifted budget to custom audiences and retargeting, where intent was strongest.
The results speak for themselves. As Blu Dot increased their investment by 10x, ROAS jumped to 2,308% and more page-view conversions surpassed 50,000.
“For CTV campaigns, Roku has been a top performer,” said Claire Folkestad, Paid Media Strategist, Blu Dot. “Comping to our other platforms, we have seen really strong ROAS… and highly efficient CPMs, lower than any other CTV partner we've worked with.”
Using Roku Ads Manager, the campaign moved from a pilot to a permanent performance engine for the brand.
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The Wall Street Journal got hold of Anthropic’s draft IPO filing.
Last Thursday I told you Anthropic was profitable.
The prospectus says it lost $80.7 billion in six months.
Both numbers are true.
Let me explain.
Revenue for the first half of 2026 was $16.3 billion, up from $1.1 billion a year earlier.
Of the $80.7 billion loss, about $72 billion is non-cash accounting charges on the convertible notes Anthropic used to raise money.
Cash leaving the building is a different story.
Compute spend for the half came in near $9 billion.
That’s more than Anthropic spent in all of 2025.
The filing shows about $450 billion in signed cloud deals over the next 7 to 10 years, most of it non-cancellable.
Google gets $111 billion, Amazon $110 billion, Microsoft $31 billion.
With the deals still being negotiated, the total could reach $750 billion. 🤯
Two risk lines worth sitting with.
About 20% of revenue comes from just two customers.
And Amazon, Google and Microsoft increasingly treat Anthropic as a competitor.
So it struggles to get enough compute from the people it’s paying $450 billion.
Speaking of things that aren’t in the filing...
A quote went viral on X today claiming the S-1 warns that advanced AI could send information “backward in time.”
It’s fake.
The filing is still confidential.
Nothing like that appears in any reporting.
X’s own community note says so.
So, in one day the internet produced a fake quote from a real document and a real CEO calling out a fake story about a real hack.
😂Meme of the Day
Over to You...
Next time someone sends you an AI scare story, ask one question: who got hacked, and what do they say happened?
If the answer is “they disagree with the film,” you’ve learned more than the film will teach you. 🔥
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