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Experts say US law is unprepared for rogue AI agents and models, as recent OpenAI and Anthropic incidents raise questions over legal liability and repercussions (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Experts say US law is unprepared for rogue AI agents and models, as recent OpenAI and Anthropic incidents raise questions over legal liability and repercussions — Both major A

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A look at the deluge of AI computing power set to come online in the coming years; Epoch AI expects the number of AI chips in use to double every nine months (New York Times)

New York Times: A look at the deluge of AI computing power set to come online in the coming years; Epoch AI expects the number of AI chips in use to double every nine months — The milestones for artif

Inside Larry Ellison's debt-fueled push to turn Oracle into an AI juggernaut by aligning with Trump, backing Project Stargate, and partnering with OpenAI (New York Times)

New York Times: Inside Larry Ellison's debt-fueled push to turn Oracle into an AI juggernaut by aligning with Trump, backing Project Stargate, and partnering with OpenAI — the first full day of the se

Sources detail how OpenAI fell behind Anthropic in revenue growth and valuation after prioritizing consumer chatbots and flashy side projects over coding tools (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: Sources detail how OpenAI fell behind Anthropic in revenue growth and valuation after prioritizing consumer chatbots and flashy side projects over coding tools — Bets

ThreatLocker raised a $190M Series F led by Elephant as it looks to extend its zero-trust enterprise security platform to protect against AI-related risks (Kyle Alspach/CRN)

Kyle Alspach / CRN: ThreatLocker raised a $190M Series F led by Elephant as it looks to extend its zero-trust enterprise security platform to protect against AI-related risks — The cybersecurity vendo

Chinese state media: Xi Jinping called for more defense applications using autonomous and AI technologies, as he pushes to build an advanced fighting force (Josh Xiao/Bloomberg)

Josh Xiao / Bloomberg: Chinese state media: Xi Jinping called for more defense applications using autonomous and AI technologies, as he pushes to build an advanced fighting force — Chinese President X

Cybersecurity experts fault Anthropic and OpenAI for sloppy safeguards and inadequate human oversight after their models broke into outside organizations (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Cybersecurity experts fault Anthropic and OpenAI for sloppy safeguards and inadequate human oversight after their models broke into outside organizations — Cybersecurity experts are faultin

DeepSeek rolls out the official V4 Flash API in public beta, touting enhanced agent capabilities and benchmark scores 'far surpassing' V4 Pro Preview (Newley Purnell/Bloomberg)

Newley Purnell / Bloomberg: DeepSeek rolls out the official V4 Flash API in public beta, touting enhanced agent capabilities and benchmark scores “far surpassing” V4 Pro Preview — China's DeepSeek rol

DeepSeek V4 Flash scores 50 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, matching Gemini 3.6 Flash and up 10 points from the preview launch in April (Artificial Analysis)

Artificial Analysis: DeepSeek V4 Flash scores 50 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, matching Gemini 3.6 Flash and up 10 points from the preview launch in April — DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 is

Filing: Amazon has completed its $50B investment in OpenAI; source: OpenAI received the final tranche this week, taking Amazon's position to roughly 5% (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Filing: Amazon has completed its 50B investment in OpenAI; source: OpenAI received the final tranche this week, taking Amazon's position to roughly 5% — Ecommerce giant has roughly 5%

Google starts rolling out access to Gemini Spark for Google AI Pro subscribers to over 160 countries and adds a Chrome auto browse integration on desktop (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google starts rolling out access to Gemini Spark for Google AI Pro subscribers to over 160 countries and adds a Chrome auto browse integration on desktop — Gemini Spark is getti

OpenAI says its models now have more than 1B active users and are used by more than 2M businesses (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)

Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI says its models now have more than 1B active users and are used by more than 2M businesses — The announcement comes after OpenAI said earlier this week

Papers and patents: Chinese military researchers distilled OpenAI and Anthropic models to train domestic AI systems and advance China's defense capabilities (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)

Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: Papers and patents: Chinese military researchers distilled OpenAI and Anthropic models to train domestic AI systems and advance China's defense capabilities — Chinese milit

Sources: Moonshot has a computing power agreement with Alibaba for the use of ~20K Nvidia chips; some say the deal is for H200 chips, which Alibaba denies (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: Sources: Moonshot has a computing power agreement with Alibaba for the use of ~20K Nvidia chips; some say the deal is for H200 chips, which Alibaba denies — Chinese AI c

Sources: OpenAI demoed a new 'Astra' AI model family to US policymakers and regulators this week, touting its improved abilities to complete long-running tasks (The Information)

The Information: Sources: OpenAI demoed a new “Astra” AI model family to US policymakers and regulators this week, touting its improved abilities to complete long-running tasks — OpenAI is preparing t

Sources: OpenAI has discovered other instances where AI agents escaped containment; none of the agents were thought to have left OpenAI's network (Reuters)

Reuters: Sources: OpenAI has discovered other instances where AI agents escaped containment; none of the agents were thought to have left OpenAI's network — OpenAI has discovered other instances in wh

Anthropic says it discovered three of its models had breached three organizations after launching a review in response to the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident (Anthropic)

Anthropic: Anthropic says it discovered three of its models had breached three organizations after launching a review in response to the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident — In a review of our cybersecurity

Anthropic says the models that breached three companies include Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an unnamed research model, and the earliest incidents date back to April (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)

Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: Anthropic says the models that breached three companies include Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an unnamed research model, and the earliest incidents date back to April

OpenAI says it is cutting the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by ~80% and the price of GPT-5.6 Terra by 20% after improving the efficiency of the systems that serve them (Ina Fried/Axios)

Ina Fried / Axios: OpenAI says it is cutting the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by ~80% and the price of GPT-5.6 Terra by 20% after improving the efficiency of the systems that serve them — OpenAI said Thursda

Q&A with CuspAI's Max Welling on its AI Materials Foundry, partnerships with Nvidia and others, Geoff Hinton and Yann LeCun joining its advisory board, and more (John Thornhill/Financial Times)

John Thornhill / Financial Times: Q&A with CuspAI's Max Welling on its AI Materials Foundry, partnerships with Nvidia and others, Geoff Hinton and Yann LeCun joining its advisory board, and more — The

Sources: ex-OpenAI executive Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness hedge fund has sought to raise capital after heavy losses during the recent AI rout (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: ex-OpenAI executive Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness hedge fund has sought to raise capital after heavy losses during the recent AI rout — Hedge fund has held ta

In an internal meeting, OpenAI finance chief Sarah Friar told employees that the company's annualized recurring revenue in July was higher than in Q2 as a whole (CNBC)

CNBC: In an internal meeting, OpenAI finance chief Sarah Friar told employees that the company's annualized recurring revenue in July was higher than in Q2 as a whole — As OpenAI chases rival Anthropi

In Q4, Microsoft's Anthropic investment saw a 3.2B gain, while its OpenAI investment was marked down ~600M but has generated a $5B gain on a full-year basis (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: In Q4, Microsoft's Anthropic investment saw a 3.2B gain, while its OpenAI investment was marked down ~600M but has generated a $5B gain on a full-year basis — When Microsoft r

Source: the European Commission plans to designate OpenAI's ChatGPT and Roblox as 'very large online platforms' under the DSA as soon as August (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Source: the European Commission plans to designate OpenAI's ChatGPT and Roblox as “very large online platforms” under the DSA as soon as August — OpenAI's ChatGPT and video game company Rob

Sources: Google DeepMind has reassigned the majority of the original authors of the AlphaFold papers; about a quarter of the papers' full-time authors have left (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: Sources: Google DeepMind has reassigned the majority of the original authors of the AlphaFold papers; about a quarter of the papers' full-time authors have left — L

Anthropic faces backlash from Silicon Valley partners, founders, and researchers for competitive tactics, guardrails, and lack of support for open-weight models (Wall Street Journal)

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 f

Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview was able to break a weaker version of AES and orchestrated another improved attack against the cryptographic system HAWK (Dustin Volz/New York Times)

Dustin Volz / New York Times: Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview was able to break a weaker version of AES and orchestrated another improved attack against the cryptographic system HAWK — Claude Myt

Apple overtakes Nvidia to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company, two years after it lost the crown, closing at a $4.9T market cap on Monday (Kalley Huang/New York Times)

Kalley Huang / New York Times: Apple overtakes Nvidia to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company, two years after it lost the crown, closing at a $4.9T market cap on Monday — The comp

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 (Hugging Face)

Hugging Face: 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 ho

OpenAI and Anthropic release statements in support of the 'Pacing the Frontier' initiative; Anthropic says Dario Amodei and several co-founders have signed it (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)

Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: OpenAI and Anthropic release statements in support of the “Pacing the Frontier” initiative; Anthropic says Dario Amodei and several co-founders have signed it — More than 1,1

OpenAI says the rogue AI that breached Hugging Face used exposed credentials from 'four accounts' tied to four 'publicly available' third-party services (Wired)

Wired: OpenAI says the rogue AI that breached Hugging Face used exposed credentials from “four accounts” tied to four “publicly available” third-party services — In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its a

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 (Bloomberg)

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 ac

Q&A with Sam Altman on the Hugging Face breach, the race for compute, distillation, open source, the concentration of power, robotics, OpenAI's future, and more (Invest Like The Best on YouTube)

Invest Like The Best on YouTube: Q&A with Sam Altman on the Hugging Face breach, the race for compute, distillation, open source, the concentration of power, robotics, OpenAI's future, and more — Sam

Sources: Moonshot is seeking access to more Nvidia Blackwell chips to prepare for Kimi K4's development, after training K3 on Nvidia chips, including Blackwell (The Information)

The Information: Sources: Moonshot is seeking access to more Nvidia Blackwell chips to prepare for Kimi K4's development, after training K3 on Nvidia chips, including Blackwell — Beijing-based startup

Sources: the OpenAI agent that breached Hugging Face also compromised a customer at AI infrastructure company Modal Labs (Reuters)

Reuters: Sources: the OpenAI agent that breached Hugging Face also compromised a customer at AI infrastructure company Modal Labs — The rogue agent that escaped from OpenAI and went on a days-long hac

Safety

The Agentic AI Foundation updates MCP with a fully stateless architecture, a hardened authentication model, a formal 12-month deprecation policy, and more (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: The Agentic AI Foundation updates MCP with a fully stateless architecture, a hardened authentication model, a formal 12-month deprecation policy, and more — The Model Cont

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The US FCC bans the import of new Chinese humanoid robots and power inverters, seeking to protect the US AI buildout from national security threats (Reuters)

Reuters: The US FCC bans the import of new Chinese humanoid robots and power inverters, seeking to protect the US AI buildout from national security threats — The Trump administration on Tuesday unvei

UK startup Dwelly, which buys real estate businesses and adds AI to handle maintenance, contracts, and other tasks, raised 95M in equity and 75M in debt (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)

Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: UK startup Dwelly, which buys real estate businesses and adds AI to handle maintenance, contracts, and other tasks, raised 95M in equity and 75M in debt — British startup Dwell

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A detailed recap of the Hugging Face breach by an internal OpenAI model, which repeatedly tried to escape OpenAI's sandbox and should be treated as critical (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)

Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: A detailed recap of the Hugging Face breach by an internal OpenAI model, which repeatedly tried to escape OpenAI's sandbox and should be treated as critica

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ChatGPT appears to block direct requests to copy an author's style, instead offering to capture the overall 'feeling', amid its legal battles with book authors (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)

Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: ChatGPT appears to block direct requests to copy an author's style, instead offering to capture the overall “feeling”, amid its legal battles with book authors — OpenAI's C

China warns it will take 'all necessary measures' if the US sanctions Chinese AI companies over allegations they improperly used US models to train their models (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: China warns it will take “all necessary measures” if the US sanctions Chinese AI companies over allegations they improperly used US models to train their models — China warned it would take

Claude chats showed in Google and Bing search results, despite Anthropic's robots.txt saying not to crawl them, likely because the pages lacked a 'noindex' tag (Maddy Varner/Wired)

Maddy Varner / Wired: Claude chats showed in Google and Bing search results, despite Anthropic's robots.txt saying not to crawl them, likely because the pages lacked a “noindex” tag — The screwup show

Enigma, which runs large-scale experiments exploring how humans interact with robots, emerges from stealth with a $70M seed led by Index Ventures and Ribbit (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Enigma, which runs large-scale experiments exploring how humans interact with robots, emerges from stealth with a $70M seed led by Index Ventures and Ribbit — Multiple robo

Microsoft introduces MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, an AI model trained for cybersecurity, and launches Perception, an agentic security system to patch vulnerabilities (New York Times)

New York Times: Microsoft introduces MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, an AI model trained for cybersecurity, and launches Perception, an agentic security system to patch vulnerabilities — As some executives fret ov

Microsoft says MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and MDASH, its vulnerability identification harness, deliver 'world-class performance at 50% of the cost of leading models' (Microsoft AI)

Microsoft AI: Microsoft says MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and MDASH, its vulnerability identification harness, deliver “world-class performance at 50% of the cost of leading models” — Today we're announcing MAI-

Safety

Nvidia forms the Open Secure AI Alliance, a coalition including CrowdStrike, Hugging Face, and Dell to develop and share tools for AI safety and cybersecurity (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: Nvidia forms the Open Secure AI Alliance, a coalition including CrowdStrike, Hugging Face, and Dell to develop and share tools for AI safety and cybersecurity — Nvidia (NVDA.

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Nvidia says it made a 'substantial' investment in Safe Superintelligence, which will get access to Nvidia GPUs to up computing power by an 'order of magnitude' (Keach Hagey/Wall Street Journal)

Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal: Nvidia says it made a “substantial” investment in Safe Superintelligence, which will get access to Nvidia GPUs to up computing power by an “order of magnitude” — Par

Several digital-asset treasury firms have pivoted to AI amid a slump in crypto prices, but their poor stock performance suggests the strategy is not working (Monique Mulima/Bloomberg)

Monique Mulima / Bloomberg: Several digital-asset treasury firms have pivoted to AI amid a slump in crypto prices, but their poor stock performance suggests the strategy is not working — The implosion