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 reviews or vetting could be positive if “done well with thoughtful people”  —  Meta chief warns against ‘regulatory capture’ of American rules on the technology  —  Mark Zuckerberg …

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 …

Russia's FSB charges Telegram founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorist activities, including by Ukraine, and issues an international arrest warrant  —  Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Wednesday that it had charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorist activities …

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.

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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...

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 …

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 …

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.

Freehand, which builds AI agents to manage supply chain spend and operations for Fortune 500 companies, raised a $75M Series B, after a $25M Series A in 2024  —  Enterprise AI startup Freehand has raised $75 million in a Series B funding round to scale its autonomous AI agents …

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.

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.

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 …

CXMT's IPO prospectus showed Alibaba had a ~5% stake, which is now worth $20B+, a nearly 20x return, based on CXMT's ~$464B closing market cap on July 28  —  ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) and Zhipu AI have not only seen their share prices skyrocket, but they have also handed a windfall …

A look at Kioxia, the Japanese NAND flash maker that went from being cash-strapped in 2023 to an expected 30-fold jump in operating income in Q1 FY 2026  —  The chipmaker needs to prove it's more than an accidental beneficiary of a supply squeeze in storage.

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

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

Security- and AI-related startups raised $855M across 150+ reported seed-stage rounds in 2026, on track for an all-time high; Oak raised $60M, the largest seed  —  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 …