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Ina Fried / Axios:
OpenAI says its models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and “an even more capable pre-release model”, breached Hugging Face while OpenAI tested their cyber capabilities  —  OpenAI said Tuesday that models it was testing escaped their sandbox and compromised parts of AI platform Hugging Face's production infrastructure last week.
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OpenAI:
OpenAI says its models chained vulnerabilities across its research environment and Hugging Face's infrastructure to find solutions for the ExploitGym benchmark  —  Last week, Hugging Face disclosed a new kind of security incident(opens in a new window) after they detected and contained …
Shakeel Hashim / Transformer:
OpenAI's Hugging Face breach is the first known example of a misaligned AI escaping containment and carrying out a hack on a third party, a clear warning shot
Samsung on YouTube:
A livestream of Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event  —  Join us at Samsung #GalaxyUnpacked on July 22, 2026.  #GalaxyAITo view the YouTube streams on a desktop or laptop computer you'll need:  • Most recent version o...
Andrew Romero / 9to5Google:
Samsung unveils the $2,099+ Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, with its “most advanced foldable design”, a new Flex Titanium display, 5,000mAH battery, and Android 17  —  The “Ultra” moniker is alive and well, but it now applies to the Galaxy Z Fold series.
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Samsung says the Galaxy Z Fold 8, Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, and Galaxy Z Flip 8 use new silicon-carbon batteries, citing their performance, longevity, and safety  —  It's happening.  Samsung has officially adopted silicon-carbon batteries on its latest foldables, though you wouldn't know that by looking …
Steve Dent / Engadget:
Samsung debuts the $1,200+ Galaxy Z Flip 8 with a lighter, smaller, and slimmer design, and new Flex Window display features to show apps on the cover screen
Wall Street Journal:
AMD and Anthropic sign an AI server deal worth tens of billions; Anthropic will buy up to 2GW of MI450 chips from H1 2027, and AMD will invest $5B in Anthropic  —  The 2-gigawatt deal covers tens of billions of dollars' worth of chips, as AMD plans to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic
Tulsee Doshi / Google:
Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber, and says it has started its “most ambitious pre-training run yet” for Gemini 4  —  Our newest Gemini models deliver the efficiency, latency, and reliability to build AI agents at scale.
Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal:
Source: OpenAI raised its projected cloud spending to ~$750B through 2030, up from a projection of ~$600B earlier this year, reflecting new cloud agreements  —  The AI giant has committed $20 billion to a new data-center project in Georgia and hired an architect of Elon Musk's computing build-out
Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
Memo: the White House OSTP plans to redirect federal research funding from universities to individual scientists and AI use, reshaping ~$200B in annual spending  —  The overhaul will reshape $200 billion in spending a year and favors individual scientists to outpace China
Financial Times:
Sources: Samsung may invest up to €1B in Mistral as part of a broader round valuing it at ~€20B, after previously backing the AI startup through its venture arm  —  South Korean giant could invest as much as €1bn in French AI group seeking to be a leading alternative to US tech
Sam Sabin / Axios:
Cisco releases Antares-350M and Antares-1B, two open-weight AI models to find known vulnerabilities within a codebase, and plans to release Antares-3B soon  —  - Cisco says the models performed similarly to much larger models, including OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and Z.ai's GLM-5.2 …
Ella Lee / Financial Times:
Trump nominates FCC General Counsel Adam Candeub to lead the DOJ's antitrust unit; Candeub, a longtime Big Tech critic, has long sought to challenge Section 230  —  Adam Candeub authored a Project 2025 chapter calling for a sweeping shake-up of US competition enforcement
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Glow, a cybersecurity startup that uses AI agents to monitor software and developer tools, emerges from stealth with a $180M Series A at a $1.2B valuation  —  Glow, a cybersecurity startup founded by former Meta and Snowflake executives, emerged from stealth as a unicorn …
Mark Landler / New York Times:
France becomes the first European country to pass a law banning social media access for users under 15, potentially taking effect as soon as September 1  —  Its new law, the first of its kind enacted by a European country, will ban access to some accounts for anyone under 15.
Jyoti Mann / The Information:
Documents: Meta's internal AI incubator is developing an AI model router, similar to OpenRouter's, to cut costs by sending some AI tasks to lower-cost models  —  Meta Platforms' internal incubator for AI-powered products and tools is developing a version of the OpenRouter service …

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From Mediagazer

Dan Shanoff / The Athletic:
Nielsen: the 2026 World Cup final drew 38.9M viewers on Fox and 22M+ on Telemundo; taken together, the US audience size rivaled that of NFL playoff games

Josh Gerstein / Politico:
A US judge rules that Trump must turn over detailed financial information of 400+ companies owned by a family trust in his defamation suit against the BBC

Variety:
WGA seeks an injunction to bar Paramount and WBD from “closing or consummating” their merger or “taking any steps to integrate or consolidate their operations”

More News

Wall Street Journal:
Anthropic commits another $20M to Public First Action, after giving $20M earlier in 2026; PFA says it is a counterweight to a16z-backed Leading the Future
John Koetsier / Forbes:
London-based robotics startup Humanoid raised a $152M Series A led by Prime Movers Lab at a $1.35B post-money valuation, bringing its total funding to $270M

Earlier Picks

Juby Babu / Reuters:
Super Micro says Q4 orders have topped $60B and expects gross margins of 15% to 17%, up from its prior forecast of 8.2% to 8.4%; SMCI jumps ~20% pre-market
Iain Martin / Forbes:
Poolside launches Laguna S 2.1, an 118B open-weight model built for agentic coding and long-horizon work, that it says competes with larger open models
Chris Best / The Substack Post:
Substack partners with AI-detection tool Pangram, allowing users to scan text longer than 100 words for an estimate of how much was written with AI assistance
Block:
Block launches Buzz, an open source collaboration workspace on Nostr protocol for humans and AI agents to share messages, code repositories, workflows, and more
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Apple says it fixed a vulnerability in its Hide My Email tool that let anyone see a user's real email address; researchers first reported the issue in June 2025
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to launch Apple Upgrade, a leasing program for most iPhone, Mac, iPad, and Apple Watch models, with partner Klarna in the US next week
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