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Hugging Face publishes a timeline of the OpenAI agent intrusion, including how the agent took ~17.6K actions, and details using GLM-5.2 to analyze the attack — This post walks through how the intrusion actually worked: the two initial-access vectors, how the agent pivoted and moved laterally … | Reuters: |
Modal Labs CTO Akshat Bubna confirms OpenAI's agent compromised a Modal customer by exploiting an unauthenticated endpoint on Modal's AI infrastructure platform — The rogue agent that escaped from OpenAI and went on a days-long hacking spree at the AI firm Hugging Face also compromised … | Bloomberg: |
Over 1,100 staffers from AI companies, including John Schulman and OpenAI's Jakub Pachocki, sign a letter requesting the US government to “pace” AI development — More than 1,100 staffers across top artificial intelligence firms have signed a petition that calls on the US government … | Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: |
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Mark Zuckerberg says the US should not ban Chinese AI models and that AI model peer reviewing or vetting could be positive if “done well with thoughtful people” — Meta chief warns against ‘regulatory capture’ of American rules on the technology| Mark Zuckerberg / Wall Street Journal: |
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Russia's FSB charges Telegram founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorist activities, including by Ukraine, and issues an international arrest warrant — Russia said on Wednesday it had charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorist activity, alleging … | Reuters: |
The US FCC bans importing Chinese humanoid robots and power inverters to protect the US AI buildout from national security threats and to reshore key industries — The Trump administration on Tuesday unveiled bans that target imports of new Chinese robots and power inverters … | @openai: |
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xAI sues Minnesota's AG over a state law banning apps and sites that create fake, sexualized pictures of individuals, claiming it violates the First Amendment — Billionaire Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company is suing Minnesota over a first-of-its-kind law that bans apps and websites … | Jenny Lee / CNBC: |
SK Hynix reports Q2 revenue up 257% YoY to ~$54.34B, below ~$57.56B est., and operating profit up 557% YoY to ~$41.48B, below ~$43.85B est.; its stock falls 9% — SK Hynix shares nosedived on Wednesday as exponential second-quarter earnings and revenue growth still failed … | Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Sources: Google DeepMind has reassigned most of the AlphaFold papers' original authors over the past year; nearly a quarter of the full-time authors have left — Landmark project that solved protein folding gives way to a wider race to build AI systems for scientific discovery| Financial Times: |
GPTZero finds AI hallucinations in four PwC Middle East reports; GPTZero's prior investigations led EY and KPMG to retract reports with apparent hallucinations — Big Four consultant is latest firm found to have produced slapdash work while marketing expertise on the technology| Lydia DePillis / New York Times: |
OpenAI, Google, Meta, BlackRock, and others are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands, with some of the highest pay the industry has ever seen — The future of artificial intelligence depends on finding more skilled humans for some very physical jobs.| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 review: comfortable when shut, the 4:3 inner display is great, and impressive battery life, but no telephoto or IP68 and some app errors — Is this the future of foldable phones? — Samsung clearly thinks so. The company has given its new wide foldable the … | Wall Street Journal: |
Anthropic faces backlash from Silicon Valley partners, founders, and researchers for competitive tactics, guardrails, and lack of support for open-weight models — The AI pioneer faces growing distrust from startup founders and researchers over competitive tactics, guardrails and lack of support for open-weight models| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Moonshot AI hit a $35B valuation after closing a $3.5B round, exceeding its initial target of $1B to $2B, and plans a Hong Kong IPO as soon as 2026 — Moonshot AI secured a $35 billion valuation after raising a larger-than-anticipated $3.5 billion in a just-closed round of financing … | The Information: |
Source: OpenRouter was recently generating ~$140M in annualized revenue, or ~$12M per month, up nearly 3x since April, making Stripe's $10B offer a big premium — If Stripe ends up buying three-year-old startup OpenRouter for close to $10 billion, the payments firm would be paying … | Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
DoorDash says the FAA granted it Part 135 air carrier certification to operate a drone delivery service and it plans to launch drone deliveries in the fall — DoorDash Inc. is building its own delivery drones and has gained the necessary approvals to operate them commercially … | Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: |
ETH Zurich spinout ZuriQ, which is developing trapped-ion quantum computing processors based on a 2D architecture, raised a $25.5M seed led by Quantonation — ZuriQ has secured seed funding to scale its trapped-ion quantum computing technology, expand its team, accelerate research and development … | Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg: |
The UK CMA opens an investigation into Microsoft over a potential consumer law breach involving users paying more to renew Microsoft 365 after it added Copilot — The UK's consumer and antitrust watchdog is investigating whether Microsoft Corp. misled customers into paying … | Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Lake Mary, Florida-based Spur Intelligence, which helps distinguish human and bot traffic to find fake users and threats, raised $200M led by Insight Partners — Spur Intelligence, a cybersecurity startup based in Lake Mary, Florida, has raised a $200 million round led by Insight Partners.| Ingrid Lunden / Resilience Media: |
London-based Agon, which is developing sovereign AI training infrastructure for European defense, emerges from stealth with a $7M pre-seed and a $23M seed — Startup founded by the co-founder of Cambridge Aerospace and alums from Anduril, Applied Intuition and Helsing aims at a critical gap in the market.| Niko Gallogly / New York Times: |
New York-based AI detection startup Pangram raised $9M led by Menlo, and releases Pangram 4.0 and its first AI image detection model, claiming 99.5% accuracy — Pangram, an A.I. detection start-up, promises near-perfect accuracy in sniffing out writing and imagery that wasn't made by humans.| Reuters: |
GlobalFoundries says the US plans to award it $300M in CHIPS Act funding to bolster R&D of silicon photonics tech to power more efficient AI data centers — GlobalFoundries (GFS.O) said on Wednesday the U.S. government will award $300 million to the chipmaker to bolster research …
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
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Zoho Books introduces the Landlords edition in the UK — Managing rental properties in the UK has long involved a messy mix of spread-out receipts, manual spreadsheets, and end-of-year tax scrambles.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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