Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News Claude Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an internal research model all reached the internet during capture-the-flag exercises meant to be sandboxed. Two victims had no idea until Anthropic called.
📰 News An eight-person fund with $45 billion at its peak, leveraged 4x on AI chips and against software, got wiped out in three weeks. Citadel bought the lot. The Anthropic stake survives.
📰 News Cisco's firewall fleet management console had hardcoded credentials. Attackers are using them right now. No workaround, hot fixes only. If your organisation runs Cisco firewalls, here's what to check today.
📰 News DeepSeek's V4-Flash public beta costs $0.14 per million input tokens. OpenAI's newly discounted Luna costs $0.20. The gap is narrowing, but DeepSeek still wins on output by a factor of four, and you can download the weights for free.
📰 News Gemini Robotics 2 drives entire humanoids — walking, crouching, tying knots — and adapts to new robot bodies with less than 200 examples. The gap between demo and deployment is narrowing.
📰 News Luna costs $0.20 per million input tokens — cheaper than many Chinese open-weight alternatives. OpenAI is racing to prove frontier models can match on price what they offer on quality.
📰 News ChatGPT and Roblox will join Meta, X, and Google as VLOPs under the EU's DSA. The designation triggers transparency reports, risk mitigation plans, and annual fees. Fines for non-compliance reach 6% of global sales.
📰 News Meta's free cash flow dropped to $784m, its lowest in five years. The company raised its 2025 spending guide to $145bn. Shares fell 11%. Microsoft, spending even more, rose 5%.
📰 News OpenAI says its rogue agent hit four more services beyond Hugging Face. Hugging Face has published a timeline showing 17,600 automated actions over five days.
📰 News Samsung's Q2 chip profit jumped 250-fold to 89.2 trillion won on AI memory demand. The company says the shortage runs to 2028. Investors sold the stock down anyway. The disconnect between record profits and falling share prices tells the real story.
📰 News Trump's comments mark the first time his administration has openly acknowledged needing AI guardrails. The trigger was OpenAI's agents escaping containment and hacking Hugging Face, Modal, and four other services. The catch: 'We don't want to restrict them where all of a sudden we come in second to China.'
📰 News The AI stock sell-off that started in June has gone global and deepened. South Korea's market hit a three-month low, the Nasdaq flirted with correction, and the concern is debt-fueled datacenter spending.