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 says the US should not ban Chinese AI models and that AI model peer reviewing or vetting could be positive if “done well with thoughtful people”  —  Meta chief warns against ‘regulatory capture’ of American rules on the technology

Russia's FSB charges Telegram founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorist activities, including by Ukraine, and issues an international arrest warrant  —  Russia said on Wednesday it had charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorist activity, alleging …

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 …

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 ~$43.85B est.; its stock falls 9%  —  SK Hynix shares nosedived on Wednesday as exponential second-quarter earnings and revenue growth still failed …

OpenAI releases an “early” version of its open-source Codex Security CLI for scanning repositories, verifying fixes, adding security checks to CI/CD, 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.

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 …

GPTZero finds AI hallucinations in four PwC Middle East reports; GPTZero's prior investigations led EY and KPMG to retract reports with apparent hallucinations  —  Big Four consultant is latest firm found to have produced slapdash work while marketing expertise on the technology

OpenAI, Google, Meta, BlackRock, and others are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands, with some of the highest pay the industry has ever seen  —  The future of artificial intelligence depends on finding more skilled humans for some very physical jobs.

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

Sources: Moonshot AI hit a $35B valuation after closing a $3.5B round, exceeding its initial target of $1B to $2B, and plans a Hong Kong IPO as soon as 2026  —  Moonshot AI secured a $35 billion valuation after raising a larger-than-anticipated $3.5 billion in a just-closed round of financing …

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

ETH Zurich spinout ZuriQ, which is developing trapped-ion quantum computing processors based on a 2D architecture, raised a $25.5M seed led by Quantonation  —  ZuriQ has secured seed funding to scale its trapped-ion quantum computing technology, expand its team, accelerate research and development …

New York-based AI detection startup Pangram raised $9M led by Menlo, and releases Pangram 4.0 and its first AI image detection model, claiming 99.5% accuracy  —  Pangram, an A.I. detection start-up, promises near-perfect accuracy in sniffing out writing and imagery that wasn't made by humans.

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 …

The UK CMA launches an investigation into Microsoft over potential consumer law breaches involving Microsoft 365 subscription renewals that added Copilot  —  The UK's consumer and antitrust watchdog is investigating whether Microsoft Corp. misled customers into paying more for its productivity …

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 review: comfortable when shut, 4:3 inner display is great, and impressive battery life, but no telephoto or IP68 and some app errors  —  Is this the future of foldable phones?  —  Samsung clearly thinks so.  The company has given its new wide foldable the “Z Fold 8” …

Lake Mary, Florida-based Spur Intelligence, which helps distinguish human and bot traffic to find fake users and threats, raised $200M led by Insight Partners  —  Spur Intelligence, a cybersecurity startup based in Lake Mary, Florida, has raised a $200 million round led by Insight Partners.

London-based Agon, which is developing sovereign AI training infrastructure for European defense, emerges from stealth with a $7M pre-seed and a $23M seed  —  Startup founded by the co-founder of Cambridge Aerospace and alums from Anduril, Applied Intuition and Helsing aims at a critical gap in the market.

BNY, the world's biggest bank for safeguarding assets, plans to use blockchain tech for its transfer agency record-keeping systems that service ~$8.6T in assets  —  Banks rush to embrace tokenised system blurring the lines between traditional finance and digital asset ecosystem

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...

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