OpenAI’s 17,600-Action Control Gap
An OpenAI agent took about 17,600 actions during the Hugging Face intrusion. In the week ending August 2, capability accelerated while containment, six-year capital bets, and verification lagged.
Apple–OpenAI: 3 Articles Cleared 4 Claims
From July 11–13, 2026, three Apple–OpenAI articles produced 12 marks across four confirmed claims; eight claims from December 2014 remained pending after at least 4,246 days.
OpenAI’s 10 Astra Results Need a Denominator
OpenAI reported 10 Astra results on Aug. 1, 2026, but no benchmark-wide hit rate. Any quantum-hardware consequence requires a reproduced result, a revised resource estimate, and a documented device decision.
Palantir’s $480M Maven and the Unproven Switch Right
On March 4, The Washington Post reported that Maven, integrated with Claude, helped find and prioritize 1,000 targets in 24 hours. The linked disclosures do not identify whether the Pentagon can order, test or audit a model switch under the Army’s $480 million commitment through 2029.
DeepSeek Hit 50 as Benchmark Accuracy Stayed at 37%
V4 Flash rose 10 points in Artificial Analysis’s index while AA-Omniscience accuracy held at 37% and its reported hallucination rate fell to 84%. Buyers should test those outcomes separately before production.
Officials: the scope of cyberattacks on US water systems now includes at least seven states and may be far wider; MN was just the first to publicly report them
Michigan and Minnesota are among at least seven states coping with cyberattacks aimed at disrupting water systems nationwide.
OpenAI says an internal version of Astra, its next big model, produced results for 10 problems in math, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer science
We want to empower scientists and mathematicians with tools that accelerate discovery. That is why we recently announced ChatGPT …
Google rolls back an image generation tool in Google Earth to add “stronger guardrails” after concerns arose it can be used to create deepfake satellite imagery
A day after Google unveiled a new feature that allowed users to create AI-generated satellite images with the click …
Thoughts on Apple Upgrade; sources: MacBook Air is now facing shortages too; Apple wants to turn its future glasses and headsets into health and fitness devices
Also: MacBook Air runs into major shortages. — Apple has finally delivered a hardware subscription program …
US judge refuses xAI's request to stop a Minnesota law banning “nudify” apps, noting the request came only three days before the law was to take effect
The ruling clears the way for the first-in-the-nation law to go into effect on Saturday. — A federal judge on Friday denied …
Trump Media's new paid data API launches, for “a direct, licensed, real-time feed of the platform's most market-moving Truths”; Dem. senators asked SEC to probe
Trump Media and Technology Group's new paid data service launched on Aug. 1, providing faster access to Truth Social posts …
Bitcoin hardware wallet Coldcard shipped a faulty firmware build, and hackers are now draining wallets; Galaxy Research estimates $70M+ stolen
More than 1,000 bitcoin, worth about $70 million, was drained from 1,196 wallets in a 41-minute window on July 30, nearly double the amount reported when the theft first surfaced.
Malaysia shuts down Network School, Balaji Srinivasan's techno-utopian project, over licensing issues; Srinivasan says he is opening a new campus in Kazakhstan
Balaji Srinivasan left Silicon Valley and created an incubator for new countries in an Asian ghost city, before the government shut it down
Sources detail the troubled development of Tencent's ambitious, GTA-like game Last Sentinel, which has burned hundreds of millions of dollars over six years
Lightspeed's Last Sentinel burnt through six years of development and hundreds of millions of dollars — Hi everyone.
This year's Defcon badges include Baochip-1x, an open source chip whose security is verifiable and that can also be used as a hardware security token
Created by legendary hardware hacker Andrew “bunnie” Huang, the badges for this year's famed security conference aim to push the boundaries of security and transparency.
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 one Intelligence Index point behind GPT-5.6 Luna (max, 51). Even after OpenAI's 80% price cut on GPT-5.6 Luna today …
An investigation reveals Dubai-based unlicensed crypto exchange Shelbit has processed at least $4B as part of Iran's sanctions-evasion operation since May 2024
A Dubai-based crypto exchange serves as a hub for moving illicit Iranian money. The exchange, Shelbit, links a vast gambling network fronted …
As Taiwanese server makers expand in Mexico, the country has become the second-largest supplier of servers to the US, behind Taiwan, with $46.9B in YTD sales
Factories churning out servers for data centres are pushing exports to record levels
LLMs are moving from generating artifacts to creating hyper-custom worlds on demand, but still lack the ability to natively perceive and audit what they create
We're starting to leave the territory where you'd test an LLM by e.g. “create an svg of pelican on a bicycle”.
LemonEdge, a fund accounting and operations software provider for the private markets sector, raised a $21M Series A led by Blackstone Innovations Investments
LemonEdge, a fund accounting platform designed specifically for the private markets sector, has secured $21m in Series A funding …
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 second Trump administration — Larry Ellison woke up in his 33-bedroom, 34-bathroom oceanfront mansion in Florida …
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 AI labs' models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and hacked other companies.
A profile of Jacob Tsimerman, who won the Fields Medal last week and is taking a leave from the University of Toronto to join OpenAI and work on AI safety
Jacob Tsimerman won the biggest prize in math. Now he's working on the most important problem of his career.
Tel Aviv-based Bloom Security, which develops endpoint security tools for monitoring AI agents, extensions, and more, emerges from stealth with a $20M seed
Chinese VC firms are rushing to raise new funds after three years of record-low fundraising, amid renewed enthusiasm for China's tech, AI, and robotics sectors
Managers capitalise on investors' desire to ‘hedge’ against US market bets — China's venture capital firms are rushing …
At the UN AI for Good summit, a big Chinese delegation argued Chinese open-source AI models are the future for most of the world, while US presence was muted
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 artificial intelligence keep getting grander. — In 2023, an A.I. system passed the bar exam.LinkedIn:William GarrityLinkedIn:William Garrity:We shouldn't talk about artificial int...
Apple introduced a cap and a 30-day cool-off period on bug report submissions, citing a deluge of AI-assisted reports; researchers can request higher quotas
iPhone maker has limited the number of vulnerabilities researchers can submit to manage wave of reports
Harmony, which offers AI-powered enterprise software for handling tasks such as employee onboarding and software access, raised a $34M seed led by Lightspeed
Toronto-based Terminal, whose API connects insurance products and commercial fleet software with telematics data, raised a $20M Series A led by Battery Ventures
A US judge largely denies Perplexity and three data scraper firms' bid to dismiss Reddit's lawsuit over claims of copyright law violations under DMCA
Researchers used AI-assisted code to undetectably tamper with data from computerized scans of physical DNA evidence produced by widely used crime-lab machines
Researchers found that widely used lab machines produced digital DNA files that are vulnerable to tampering