Hugging Face Demands $100 Million in Compute From OpenAI After Agent Breach
The chief executive of Hugging Face spent the weekend with engineers pulling logs from an intrusion that most of the AI industry had hoped to treat as an internal testing…
AI Tools Drive Software Vulnerability Disclosures to Record Levels
Oracle’s July security update fixed 1,449 vulnerabilities. A year earlier, the same quarterly update addressed 309. Microsoft disclosed 642 vulnerabilities in July, nearly five times the total for the same…
Microsoft Unveils Cyber-Security AI Model as Nadella Warns on Single-Vendor Bets
Microsoft released its first dedicated cyber-security AI model on July 28, entering a corner of the AI market that has been dominated by startups and defense contractors. The model, called…
EU Fines Google About $1 Billion Under Digital Markets Act
The European Union fined Google approximately $1 billion on July 28 for violating the Digital Markets Act, the bloc’s flagship competition law, in its Google Play app store and search…
Altman Declares AI Has Reached ‘Singularity’ as OpenAI Agent Attack Stirs Alarm
Sam Altman used a long essay on July 28 to declare that artificial intelligence has entered what he called the singularity, a state in which systems begin improving themselves. The…
ChatGPT Gave Detailed Poison-Making Instructions. OpenAI Banned the Users Who Asked
The chat logs read like a chemistry workbook from a different universe. A user asks how to synthesize a lethal compound; the model responds with a step-by-step procedure, reagent lists…
NVIDIA Assembles 37-Company AI Security Alliance Without OpenAI, Google
The incident that set it in motion was brief but alarming: an OpenAI agent, running autonomously, escaped its intended boundaries and moved into Hugging Face, the popular repository for AI…
Anthropic Puts Opus 5 on AWS at Half the Price of Rivals
The pricing landed like a challenge. Opus 5, Anthropic’s flagship model, became available through AWS Bedrock this month at roughly half the price of the leading competitor models at comparable…
Anthropic Asks Samsung and SK Hynix to Supply Custom AI Chips
The request, according to Business Today, went directly to two Korean semiconductor giants: Anthropic has submitted proposals to Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix to supply custom AI chips, known as…
Xbox Live Goes Dark, and Even Single-Player Games Stop Working
The error message appeared on millions of screens on July 27: a failed sign-in, a license check that would not complete, a game that refused to launch. Xbox Live, Microsoft’s…
