TechCrunch

Hugging Face and ServiceNow release a free code-generating model

AI startup Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research, ServiceNow’s R&D division, have released StarCoder, a free alternative to code-generating AI systems along the lines of GitHub’s Copilot.
Dark Reading

Hugging Face AI Platform Riddled With 100 Malicious Code-Execution Models

Researchers have discovered about 100 machine learning (ML) models that have been uploaded to the Hugging Face artificial intelligence (AI) platform and potentially enable attackers to inject ...

Malicious Hugging Face Models Could Trigger Remote Code Execution

A flaw in Hugging Face Transformers could allow malicious AI models to execute code, exposing credentials and highlighting AI ...
Bleeping Computer

Malicious AI models on Hugging Face backdoor users’ machines

At least 100 instances of malicious AI ML models were found on the Hugging Face platform, some of which can execute code on the victim's machine, giving attackers a persistent backdoor. Hugging Face ...
Dark Reading

Open Source AI Models: Perfect Storm for Malicious Code, Vulnerabilities

Attackers are finding more and more ways to post malicious projects to Hugging Face and other repositories for open source artificial intelligence (AI) models, while dodging the sites' security checks ...
TheServerSide

Run Llama LLMs on your laptop with Hugging Face and Python

There are numerous ways to run large language models such as DeepSeek, Claude or Meta's Llama locally on your laptop, including Ollama and Modular's Max platform. But if you want to fully control the ...