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 how the intrusion actually worked: the two initial-access vectors, how the agent pivoted and moved laterally …

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 across top artificial intelligence firms have signed a petition that calls on the US government …

Mark Zuckerberg argues that superintelligence should be widely distributed as a tool that empowers everyone, rather than centralized in a few institutions  —  The history of democracy and economics has proved that centralized power stifles human potential.  —  We are fortunate to live at an incredible moment in history.

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 Mythos Preview discovered new attacks in testing against weakened cryptographic algorithms, which protect online financial transactions …

OpenAI releases an “early” version of the open-source Codex Security CLI for scanning repositories, verifying fixes, adding CI/CD security checks, and more  —  We quietly released the open-source Codex Security CLI, but Hacker News found it before we had a chance to share it here... You can now use it to scan repositories, track findings across runs, verify fixes, and add security checks to CI/CD. This is an early release, and we're listening to your feedback as we continue improving it.

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 Altman joins us for a wide-ranging conversation about OpenAI's next chapter, the race for compute, and what happens as artificial intelligence becomes mo...

SK Hynix reports Q2 revenue up 257% YoY to ~$54.34B, below ~$57.56B est., and operating profit up 557% YoY to ~$41.48B, below analyst estimate of ~$43.85B  —  SK Hynix shares nosedived on Wednesday as exponential second-quarter earnings and revenue growth still failed to satisfy analysts …

The US FCC bans importing Chinese humanoid robots and power inverters to protect the US AI buildout from national security threats and to reshore key industries  —  The Trump administration on Tuesday unveiled bans that target imports of new Chinese robots and power inverters …

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 Context Protocol, the open standard that has quietly become the connective tissue between AI agents and the world's software …

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  —  Landmark project that solved protein folding gives way to a wider race to build AI systems for scientific discovery

eBay and former executives agree to pay a nearly $56M settlement to resolve a 2021 civil case over the 2019 stalking and harassment of two e-commerce bloggers  —  EBay and several former executives have agreed to pay nearly $56 million in a settlement with a Massachusetts couple who were the target …

Doctors and researchers worry that FDA-related wagers on Kalshi and Polymarket could compromise drug development tests and erode public trust in the process  —  On the betting websites Kalshi and Polymarket, people can now wager on whether the Food and Drug Administration will decide this year …

Security- and AI-related startups have raised $855M across more than 150 reported seed-stage rounds this year, on track for an all-time high  —  Seed funding trends tell us a lot about how savvy investors see the future unfolding.  And lately, the data tells us there's great concern about cybersecurity risks posed by AI.

July 16 letter: the US EPA says power plants providing electricity only to data centers and not to the public grid wouldn't be subject to federal pollution laws  —  Power sources providing electricity only to data centers and not the public grid may not be subject to federal pollution laws …

Coursera is investing $100M in LearnVector, a new AI education company founded by Andrew Ng that aims to build AI agents that function as personal tutors  —  Coursera is putting $100 million into LearnVector, a new AI education company founded by Andrew Ng, a pioneer in AI and Coursera's chairman …

NYC-based AI startup Runlayer sues Rippling for allegedly stealing trade secrets to “build essentially a clone” of Runlayer's safety and governance product  —  A New York-based AI startup is suing Rippling - a Silicon Valley software giant that got a $3 million tax break from Gov. Kathy Hochul …

xAI sues Minnesota's AG over a state law banning apps and sites that create fake, sexualized pictures of individuals, claiming it violates the First Amendment  —  Billionaire Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company is suing Minnesota over a first-of-its-kind law that bans apps and websites …

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 faces growing distrust from startup founders and researchers over competitive tactics, guardrails and lack of support for open-weight models

NXP reports Q2 revenue up 19% YoY to $3.5B, vs. $3.46B est., as it struggled to impress investors with a generally upbeat Q3 forecast; NXPI down 5%+ after hours  —  NXP Semiconductors NV struggled to impress investors with a generally upbeat forecast for the current period, the latest sign of deepening concern about the chip sector.

Apple launches Apple Upgrade, a new US leasing program in partnership with Klarna that replaces the iPhone Upgrade Program, starting at $17.99/month for iPhones  —  Apple today launched Apple Upgrade, a new U.S. leasing program for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch.

Core Scientific and AMD announce a deal under which AMD will secure 500+ MW of US data center capacity starting in 2027, with the ability to scale up to 2.5 GW  —  Quick Take  — AMD will secure more than 500 megawatts of Core Scientific data-center capacity beginning in 2027 …

Sources: Apple is preparing to debut a smart home hub with a 7" square display and facial recognition tech, a new Apple TV, and a refreshed HomePod mini in 2026  —  Apple Inc., after spending years as a laggard in the smart home market, is preparing a dramatic new push into the category with fresh devices and software.

Tel Aviv-based Hush Security, which lets organizations securely control enterprise AI agents, raised a $30M Series A, bringing its total funding to $41M  —  The startup will invest in expanding engineering and sales teams, accelerating ecosystem support, and expanding corporate partnerships.

Bitcoin miner and AI infrastructure company Ionic Digital surged more than 25% to nearly $63 in its Nasdaq debut, giving it an implied valuation of ~$2.75B  —  Quick Take  — Ionic Digital was formed from Celsius Mining's assets and later took direct control of its sites from Hut 8.