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July 22, 2026, 12:40 AM
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Ina Fried / Axios:
OpenAI says its models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and “an even more capable pre-release model”, breached Hugging Face while OpenAI tested their cyber capabilities  —  OpenAI said Tuesday that models it was testing escaped their sandbox and compromised parts of AI platform Hugging Face's production infrastructure last week.
OpenAI:
OpenAI says its models chained vulnerabilities across its research environment and Hugging Face's infrastructure to find solutions for the ExploitGym benchmark  —  Last week, Hugging Face disclosed a new kind of security incident(opens in a new window) after they detected and contained …
Tulsee Doshi / Google:
Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber, and says it has started its “most ambitious pre-training run yet” for Gemini 4  —  Our newest Gemini models deliver the efficiency, latency, and reliability to build AI agents at scale.
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
Google says Gemini 3.6 Flash improves coding, multimodal, and knowledge work performance and uses up to 17% fewer tokens and costs less per token vs. 3.5 Flash  —  Alphabet is releasing three new Gemini models on Tuesday, including its clearest answer yet to Anthropic's lead in cybersecurity …
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google prices Gemini 3.6 Flash lower than 3.5 Flash, at $1.50/1M input tokens and $7.50/1M output tokens, and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite at $0.30/1M and $2.50/1M
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google says Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber is a “cost-efficient and highly capable alternative” to models like Mythos, available first to governments and some partners
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to launch Apple Upgrade, a leasing program for most iPhone, Mac, iPad, and Apple Watch models, with partner Klarna in the US next week  —  Apple Inc. is preparing to introduce Apple Upgrade, a leasing program that will mark one of the biggest-ever changes to how the company sells devices.
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the Trump administration will look into whether Chinese AI models were distilled from US models and may “sanction them”  —  U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday said the Trump administration will look into whether Chinese …
Financial Times:
Sources: China is weighing tightening AI and chip export controls and is consulting leading domestic AI companies, in a bid to slow advanced tech acquisitions
Ella Lee / Financial Times:
Trump nominates FCC general counsel Adam Candeub to lead the DOJ's antitrust unit; Candeub, a longtime Big Tech critic, has long sought to challenge Section 230  —  Adam Candeub authored a Project 2025 chapter calling for a sweeping shake-up of US competition enforcement
Sam Sabin / Axios:
Cisco releases Antares-350M and Antares-1B, two open-weight AI models to find known vulnerabilities within a codebase, and plans to release Antares-3B soon  —  - Cisco says the models performed similarly to much larger models, including OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and Z.ai's GLM-5.2 …
Iain Martin / Forbes:
Poolside launches Laguna S 2.1, an 118B open-weight model built for agentic coding and long-horizon work, that it says competes with larger open models  —  Chinese open-source models like Kimi, Deepseek and Qwen are now dominant AI tools.  American upstarts like Mira Murati's Thinking Machines …
John Koetsier / Forbes:
London-based robotics startup Humanoid raised a $152M Series A led by Prime Movers Lab at a $1.35B post-money valuation, bringing its total funding to $270M  —  Europe has a new billion-dollar startup, and it's Humanoid, a two-year-old company headquartered in London that developed its humanoid robot, HMND 01, in near-record time.
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Meta quietly releases StoryKit, a new mobile app that uses AI to create personalized children's stories, including illustrations and original music, in Mexico  —  Meta has quietly released a new iPhone app that uses AI to create personalized children's stories, complete with illustrations, narration, and original music.
More: TechCrunch
Mark Landler / New York Times:
France becomes the first European country to pass a law banning social media access for users under 15, potentially going into effect as soon as September 1  —  Its new law, the first of its kind enacted by a European country, will ban access to some accounts for anyone under 15.
Block:
Block launches Buzz, an open source collaboration workspace on Nostr protocol for humans and AI agents to share messages, code repositories, workflows, and more  —  Open Source, Decentralized Technology, Developers, AI, Technology  —  TODAY WE'RE RELEASING Buzz, A FREE …
Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
Memo: the White House OSTP plans to redirect federal research funding from universities to individual scientists and AI use, reshaping ~$200B in annual spending  —  The overhaul will reshape $200 billion in spending a year and favors individual scientists to outpace China
Jyoti Mann / The Information:
Documents: Meta's internal AI incubator is developing an AI model router, similar to OpenRouter's, to cut costs by sending some AI tasks to lower-cost models  —  Meta Platforms' internal incubator for AI-powered products and tools is developing a version of the OpenRouter service …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
OpenAI renews its investment in the American Journalism Project by committing an additional $5M in funding and $3M in tech credits over the next two years  —  OpenAI is renewing its investment in the American Journalism Project by committing an additional $5 million in funding and $3 million …
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Juby Babu / Reuters:
Super Micro says Q4 orders have topped $60B and expects gross margins of 15% to 17%, up from its prior forecast of 8.2% to 8.4%; SMCI jumps ~20% after hours  —  Super Micro Computer (SMCI.O) said on Tuesday it has received orders in excess of $60 billion in the fourth quarter …
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Apple says it fixed a vulnerability in its Hide My Email tool that let anyone see a user's real email address; researchers first reported the issue in June 2025  —  For a year, Apple knew that an issue in its Hide My Email feature was exposing customers' real email addresses.
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft and Mistral sign a multibillion-dollar deal to build European data centers and integrate Mistral models into Foundry, Copilot Studio, and Azure Local  —  ‘Multibillion-dollar’ pact will support Mistral data centers in Europe, helping the French company sell its AI models, and Microsoft its cloud and AI services

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From Mediagazer

Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
Memo: ESPN's Jimmy Pitaro announces layoffs, mostly due to the NFL Network acquisition; sources: on-air personalities Karl Ravech and Ryan Clark are affected

Dan Shanoff / The Athletic:
Nielsen: the World Cup final drew 38.9M viewers on Fox, and 22M+ on Telemundo; taken together, the US audience size rivaled that of NFL playoff games

MJ Franklin / New York Times:
How publishers are cashing in on surging public interest in The Odyssey through splashy reissues; Circana BookScan says sales of The Odyssey rose by 76% YoY

More News

Chris Best / The Substack Post:
Substack partners with AI-detection tool Pangram, allowing users to scan text longer than 100 words for an estimate of how much was written with AI assistance
Tracey Tully / New York Times:
NJ Governor says a software error at DMV led to the improper voter registration of ~6,600 noncitizens between June 2023 and June 2024; 400 of those cast ballots
Scott Stein / CNET:
Meta adds the Xbox Game Pass starter edition to its Horizon Plus plan, which costs $60/year or $8/month; the pass only allows 10 hours of Xbox gaming per month
AI Security Institute:
Analysis: every frontier AI model tested in cybersecurity evaluations attempted to “cheat”, led by GPT-5.4 at 14.1% of tasks; Mythos cheated the least, at 7.8%

Earlier Picks

Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware:
Nvidia details its Vera CPU for data centers, its first CPU with a custom core design, featuring 88 cores and 176 threads, set for general release in H2 2026
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
OpenAI says it now has 10M people using Codex and ChatGPT Work, nearly doubling usage from earlier this month when the company announced ChatGPT Work
Philippa Wain / BBC:
UK PM Andy Burnham abolishes the Department for Science, Innovation, and Tech and elevates UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan, who oversees AISI, to attend cabinet
Nathan Lambert / Interconnects AI:
Kimi K3 marks the arrival of frontier open-weight models; the core Kimi team has incredible culture and a freedom to express it within a GPU-limited environment
Vittoria Elliott / Wired:
Memo: the Army CIO reinstates limits on Army members' AI token usage; docs show the DOD's Ask Sage tool can access 100M tokens via an annual “enterprise pack”
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