AMD bets $5B on Anthropic, DOE Genesis signs 24, OpenAI escape blamed on proxy
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Sources
OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to hack Hugging Face arstechnica.com
“This is day one for cybersecurity in the age of agents,” Hugging Face CEO says.
How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face techcrunch.com
OpenAI made a mistake setting up what it called a “highly isolated” testing environment and sandbox. According to cybersecurity experts, that human mistake is what made the AI-powered attack on Hugging Face possible.
Advancing the next era of national science openai.com
OpenAI outlines its commitment to advancing American science working with the U.S. Department of Energy and national labs to use frontier AI to accelerate discovery.
Accelerating the frontiers of scientific discovery: Google’s $40M commitment to the Genesis Mission deepmind.google
Google commits $40M in AI tokens and credits for the Genesis Mission
AMD commits up to $5 billion to Anthropic theverge.com
AMD says it’s going to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic, while helping to expand the AI company’s computing power, according to an announcement on Wednesday. As part of the new partnership, Anthropic will deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD’s Instinct MI450 AI GPUs using the chipmaker’s new Helios rack-scale system, as reported […]
Inside the Model Factory — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI latent.space
Poolside co-CEO Eiso Kant details the small-team ‘Model Factory’ behind Laguna S 2.1, a 118B mixture-of-experts model priced below DeepSeek v4 Flash while outscoring V4 Pro. The release marks a rare neolab win against a roughly 1T-parameter open-weights competitor.
(AINews) “Laguna S 2.1 Released: Cheaper than Deepseek v4 Flash, Better than V4 Pro” latent.space
a quiet day lets us highlight a new neolab win.
3 Google updates from Galaxy Unpacked 2026 blog.google
Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked showed off Gemini Intelligence across the Fold8 Ultra and its first smart glasses, built with Google, Gentle Monster, and Warby Parker. The eyewear pairs a 9-hour battery with visual prompts like identifying buildings or booking restaurants from a photo, shipping this fall.
Here’s what Samsung’s smart glasses actually look like theverge.com
Samsung has given us our first chance to check out its upcoming smart glasses in person, revealing two new designs and the first specs in the process, including an impressive 9-hour battery life. The glasses, developed in collaboration with Google and the eyewear brands Gentle Monster and Warby Parker, are due to launch this fall. […]
A research agenda for the Economic Futures Research Fund anthropic.com
The Economic Futures Research Fund backs outside work on AI’s labor-market impact, paired with a new Claude connector that lets users query the Anthropic Economic Index directly in chat. Both moves formalize Anthropic’s push to measure and shape economic disruption from its models.
Ask Claude about the Anthropic Economic Index anthropic.com
Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable techcrunch.com
The White House accuses Moonshot of distilling Anthropic’s Fable model, prompting Treasury sanctions threats and reigniting Washington’s fight over Chinese open weights. US open-source lab Arcee counters that Chinese models are not inherently dangerous, warning against blanket restrictions on the ecosystem.
Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous techcrunch.com
As Chinese AI models grow in capability and popularity among U.S. companies, the arguing over what should be done about them has reached a fever pitch.
OpenAI’s AI spending spree has ballooned to $750B techcrunch.com
OpenAI’s cumulative compute and data-center commitments now total roughly $750B through 2030, a figure equivalent to Sweden’s annual GDP. The buildout intensifies scrutiny of power sourcing and climate impact as hyperscaler capex reaches sovereign scale.
Building AI infrastructure with the Effingham County community openai.com
Project Camellia brings an OpenAI data center to Effingham County with pledges on responsible energy sourcing, local hiring, community investment, and free Codex access for area residents. It extends OpenAI’s Stargate-era footprint deeper into the US Southeast.
Introducing OpenAI Presence openai.com
Presence packages OpenAI’s voice and chat agents for enterprise customer and internal workflows, with guardrails and deployment tooling aimed at regulated buyers. The launch pits OpenAI directly against Salesforce Agentforce and Google’s enterprise agent stack.
Unlimited AI tokens aren’t unlimited after all as US Army burns through supply arstechnica.com
Troops received an email informing them that they were rapidly depleting their AI tokens.
NTT DATA Group cuts incident analysis to 30 minutes with Codex openai.com
NTT DATA Group uses ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to help 9,000 employees automate work, cut incident analysis to 30 minutes, and scale secure AI adoption.
Utility companies promise to spare us from AI’s energy bill theverge.com
In the face of backlash to concerns the AI boom will increase consumer electricity bills, the largest utility companies and data center developers in the US are now promising to do something about it. The Wall Street Journal reports that nearly 200 organizations have signed President Donald Trump’s “rate payer protection pledge” that’s meant to […]
Open models recap: more on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, Xi’s WAIC speech, distillation, the open-closed gap, and what’s next interconnects.ai
A podcast with Florian Brand.
Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business techcrunch.com
Google’s cloud business is thriving, as companies adopting its AI and AI infrastructure services help the tech giant to report record profits.
How news organizations are using AI to advance their vital missions openai.com
News organizations are using AI to strengthen reporting, grow audiences, and improve business operations, with OpenAI tools supporting journalists and publishers worldwide.
After shocking quarter, IBM insists that AI isn’t killing the mainframe techcrunch.com
After IBM’s stock crashed last week on warnings of poor mainframe sales, the CEO explained that AI wrecked corporate hardware budget, temporarily.
Meta made its own AI detection system. It should have just used Google’s theverge.com
IIn March, Meta’s Oversight Board called on the company to “meet its public commitments and employ its own tools” to help quell the spread of deceptive generative AI content across platforms. Meta responded in July by introducing Content Seal - an invisible watermarking technology that flags images generated by the company’s new AI model. But […]
Travis Kalanick’s robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z techcrunch.com
Uber is also investing in Travis Kalanick’s company Atoms, which has made gauzy claims about using industrial AI to modernize the world.
Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out arstechnica.com
Anthropic blocks authors from opting out of $1.5B settlement at last minute.
Hyundai claims humanoid robot plan is not part of talks with striking workers arstechnica.com
Union previously warned automaker that any robot deployment must be negotiated.
Monday.com lays off hundreds to focus on AI techcrunch.com
The company said it is reducing its headcount by 20%, or about 630 staff, to “support a leaner, more focused operating model” as it focuses on its AI Work Platform.
Substack’s new tool tells you who’s been writing their newsletters with AI techcrunch.com
Substack is giving readers a way to estimate how much of a newsletter was written by AI, signaling a broader shift toward transparency around AI-assisted content.
Synthesia’s AI training platform is moving beyond videos into live coaching techcrunch.com
Synthesia launched AI Roleplay Sessions, an interactive enterprise training platform where employees practice workplace conversations with AI avatars that provide feedback, scoring, and analytics to help companies measure training effectiveness.
Glow emerges from stealth at $1.2B valuation to challenge endpoint security in the AI era techcrunch.com
Glow is targeting a new class of endpoint risks created by the rapid adoption of AI agents and developer tools inside enterprises.
Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy explains what AI startups founders must do differently techcrunch.com
Anthropic leaped to a $47 billion revenue run rate by May, compared to $9 billion in 2025. It’s the kind of growth that Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy says he’s never seen in 25 years of investing, not in the internet wave, not in mobile, not in the first cloud boom. Menlo led Anthropic’s $500M Series D, and Murphy has had a front-row seat as the company went from a pre-revenue, […]
Advancing next-gen AI with materials science innovation technologyreview.com
The conversation about AI often centers on algorithms, computing power, or huge investments in new semiconductor fabrication plants and hyperscale data centers. But beneath each of these advances is another layer of innovation that makes them possible: advanced materials. Every new generation of AI technology demands more processing power, more memory, greater energy efficiency, and…
Xaira Therapeutics is all in on data generation for model building! We talk with Bo Wang and Ci Chu about how and why.
ServiceNow bets $40 million on Indian banking software specialist to expand its financial services push techcrunch.com
ServiceNow’s investment gives BusinessNext a strategic partner to expand its AI-powered banking software globally.
The browser wars aren’t about search anymore — here are the best alternatives to Chrome and Safari techcrunch.com
We’ve compiled an overview of some of the top alternative browsers available today aiming to challenge Chrome and Safari.
Better design than Fable bensbites.com
unsolved maths problems vs ai models, who’ll win?
Yope raises $12.3M to build a private social network without algorithms or ads techcrunch.com
Yope, a fast-growing social app focused on private groups of friends and family, has raised $12.3 million in seed funding. Instead of chasing creators and algorithmic feeds, the startup is betting that the future of social networking lies in small, private communities powered by messaging, photo sharing, and AI features designed to strengthen real-world relationships.
Passionfroot raises $15M to expand its B2B creator marketplace to the US techcrunch.com
Passionfroot, a German startup building a marketplace connecting B2B creators with brands, has raised $15M in a Series A round led by Insight Partners.
Orchestrions simonwillison.net
San Francisco tip: it only costs around $15 ($10 in quarters plus a $5 bill for the self-playing violin) to activate every single Orchestrion in Musée Mécanique . And because most people are bad at allocating their funds you may well be the ONLY person activating the Orchestrions, which means you get to craft the soundscape for the entire museum. Tags: san-francisco
California Sea Lion simonwillison.net
California Sea Lion, in San Francisco County, US, CA We took some visiting family to Pier 39 to see the sea lions. They’re somehow always even fun than I remember them being last time. Tags: san-francisco , wildlife
References
MLQ.ai deal analysis mlq.ai
The first 1GW of capacity is scheduled to begin deployment in the first half of 2027… Anthropic intends to fulfill this capacity through a hybrid model of direct ownership of hardware in its own facilities and leased capacity through neocloud and hyperscale providers.
TheNextWeb — Helios rack teardown thenextweb.com
A single Helios rack delivers 2.9 exaFLOPS of FP4 and 1.4 exaFLOPS of FP8 performance… Each MI455X GPU is equipped with 432GB of HBM4 memory, providing a total of 31TB per Helios rack—nearly 50% more than the 20–21TB found in NVIDIA’s Blackwell Ultra systems.
Investing.com — analyst reaction investing.com
Unlike previous deals involving dilutive stock warrants, this agreement is based on direct equity, suggesting a ‘structural shift’ in favor of chipmakers in a supply-constrained market. KeyBanc estimated the partnership could eventually generate over $27 billion in revenue.
Columbia CUIT blog — circular financing critique blogs.cuit.columbia.edu
Critics have labeled the arrangement ‘circular financing,’ a practice where a hardware vendor invests in its own customer to facilitate the purchase of its products… risks creating a ‘self-reinforcing ecosystem’ reminiscent of the dot-com era’s vendor financing schemes.
Spheron Network — ROCm vs CUDA 2026 review spheron.network
Practitioners have reported using Claude to port complex CUDA kernels to ROCm in under 30 minutes—a task that previously took weeks… performance still trails CUDA by 10-30% in non-optimized workloads, and users must often rely on community ‘hacks’ like ZLUDA for compatibility.
Seeking Alpha — circular financing skeptic seekingalpha.com
Signal65 indicates that NVIDIA’s GB200 NVL72 can outperform current AMD clusters by up to 28 times in specific MoE workloads due to more mature software optimization and interconnect efficiency.
Crypto Briefing cryptobriefing.com
The U.S. Department of Energy has announced a $5 billion commitment to the Genesis Mission… with over 24 industry partners including Microsoft ($60M), Google ($40M in AI tokens and cloud credits), NVIDIA, OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS and Oracle signing MOUs to build the American Science and Security Platform.
Reboot Democracy (Research Radar) rebootdemocracy.ai
The American Science and Security Platform is designed as a self-contained ecosystem where scientific data, supercomputing, and AI models circulate with minimal external visibility… offering almost no role for public oversight, democratic accountability, or meaningful participation from universities outside of specific partnerships.
Preprints.org essay (Jeannot / Stevens) preprints.org
Rick Stevens, Associate Laboratory Director at Argonne, described the mission as the ‘industrialization of research’… Jeannot warned that automating scientific thought turns researchers into mere ‘supervisors of automated systems’ whose inner workings exceed human grasp.
Lab Critics — LifeSciBench review of GPT-Rosalind labcritics.com
Rosalind achieved a 36.1% exact pass rate on this benchmark… However, the model’s performance significantly drops when tasks involve non-text artifacts like genomic sequences or chemical figures, falling from a 45.1% pass rate on text-only tasks to 28.1% for artifact-heavy ones.
Hyper.ai on Google DeepMind’s $40M commitment hyper.ai
The National Laboratory of the Rockies reported reducing microscope calibration times from 90 minutes to just 13 minutes by embedding Gemini into their experimental workflows… DeepMind’s own policy specialists warn that unmanaged adoption could hinder the development of junior scientists.
Center for Biological Diversity report biologicaldiversity.org
The AI data center expansion could account for up to 10% of total U.S. emissions by 2035, potentially sabotaging national climate targets… utilities are increasingly delaying the retirement of coal plants and expanding natural gas generation to meet the unprecedented load growth.
SecurityWeek securityweek.com
an operator had allowlisted a bare IP literal, which inadvertently bypassed internal egress controls and granted the models access to the open internet
Tech Policy Press — ‘The Real Lesson of OpenAI’s Rogue Agent Isn’t Alignment’ techpolicy.press
the forensic AI refused to cooperate… classified the team’s legitimate queries — which contained raw shell commands and exploit payloads — as ‘malicious’ and blocked them
r/LocalLLaMA discussion of the HF incident report reddit.com
Hugging Face deployed GLM 5.2, a Chinese open-weight model, on its own local infrastructure… to reconstruct the attack chain without usage policy interference
Forbes — Barry Collins forbes.com
‘the boy who cried wolf,’ training ‘badder wolves’ to convince the public that only OpenAI holds the key to safety
The Next Web on Pillar Security’s ‘Week of Sandbox Escapes’ thenextweb.com
CVE-2026-48124 allowed an agent to hijack a workspace hook to run unsandboxed commands, proving that an agent’s ‘blast radius’ extends to anything the host system trusts
Penligent analysis of ExploitGym penligent.ai
top-tier models like Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 successfully exploited 157 and 120 instances, respectively, in initial runs
