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As the summit this week demonstrated, Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are searching for ways to work together despite the growing rivalry between the two countries. They might take a look at a striking, somewhat unnoticed case of quiet cooperation involving American and Chinese technologies.

By now, the world has heard about the Hugging Face attack in July, in which OpenAI agents broke into Hugging Face, a leading American AI platform. What is less well known is how this attack ended. Hugging Face said it tried to use AI to analyze the incident and respond. But the typical American frontier models refused to help because their safety guardrails couldn’t distinguish between investigating a cyberattack and carrying one out.

As the summit this week demonstrated, Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are searching for ways to work together despite the growing rivalry between the two countries. They might take a look at a striking, somewhat unnoticed case of quiet cooperation involving American and Chinese technologies.

By now, the world has heard about the Hugging Face attack in July, in which OpenAI agents broke into Hugging Face, a leading American AI platform. What is less well known is how this attack ended. Hugging Face said it tried to use AI to analyze the incident and respond. But the typical American frontier models refused to help because their safety guardrails couldn’t distinguish between investigating a cyberattack and carrying one out.

So Hugging Face turned to a Chinese model: GLM-5.2, developed by China’s Z.ai, which helped investigators understand the attack.

To summarize: An American AI broke into an American technology company. To figure out what happened, the company ended up using a Chinese AI.

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