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July 29, 2026, 9:50 AM

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Hugging Face:
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 …
Reuters:
Modal Labs CTO Akshat Bubna confirms OpenAI's agent compromised a Modal customer by exploiting an unauthenticated endpoint on Modal's AI infrastructure platform  —  The rogue agent that escaped from OpenAI and went on a days-long hacking spree at the AI firm Hugging Face also compromised …
Bloomberg:
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 …
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Reuters:
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 …
Reuters:
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 …
@openai:
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.
Riley Moser / CBS News:
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 …
Jenny Lee / CNBC:
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 …
Bloomberg:
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 …
More: Unite.AI
The Information:
Source: OpenRouter was recently generating ~$140M in annualized revenue, or ~$12M per month, up nearly 3x since April, making Stripe's $10B offer a big premium  —  If Stripe ends up buying three-year-old startup OpenRouter for close to $10 billion, the payments firm would be paying …

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