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  • OpenAI’s rogue AI agent didn’t stop at hacking Hugging Face
    The Verge [ai] - 11:54 Jul 29, 2026
    The AI agent that escaped from OpenAI and hacked developer platform Hugging Face attacked other companies as well, OpenAI revealed on Tuesday. The update substantially widens the scope of an already concerning incident, which has alarmed industry insiders and fueled growing calls for stronger oversight on frontier AI systems. In an update to a blog […]
    Tags: Hugging Face OpenAI
  • We’re running out of reasons to ignore AI safety
    The Verge [ai] - 11:00 Jul 29, 2026
    Earlier this month, OpenAI gave several of its AI models a task: complete a test designed to measure their cybersecurity capabilities. It put the systems in a sandboxed environment without an internet connection and set them off to work. What happened next is almost laughably silly - but also, as Adam Gleave, cofounder and CEO […]
  • AI leaders sign a statement asking the government to do something about automated AI
    The Verge [ai] - 19:46 Jul 28, 2026
    Employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, Mistral, and other leading AI labs, have written a statement to the US government supporting a potential slowdown of sorts for frontier AI development - or at least a speed-up of global coordinated governance efforts. "Al could help create a dramatically better […]
  • AI’s finally expensive enough to make Wall Street nervous
    The Verge [ai] - 19:33 Jul 28, 2026
    It's earnings season, and investors got an unpleasant surprise from Google: an increase on its spending estimate, to as much as $205 billion - from the last quarter's projection of up to $190 billion. Even the lower end of Google's new projected range - $195 billion - is much more than the company had previously […]
  • Perplexity’s Personal Computer turns Windows PCs into AI agents
    The Verge [ai] - 12:30 Jul 28, 2026
    Perplexity has expanded its agentic Personal Computer tool to Windows, allowing computers running the world's most popular OS to be used as a locally run AI system. Like the Mac version that Perplexity launched in April, Personal Computer for Windows operates like a "general-purpose digital worker" that can access local files and apps to perform […]
    Tags: Perplexity Personal Computer Windows
  • Smart rings are looking like my kind of AI gadget
    The Verge [ai] - 12:00 Jul 28, 2026
    Over the last few months, I've spent a lot of time talking to my computer. One underrated feature of the LLM revolution has been a remarkable leap in all kinds of dictation technology - even the fastest, cheapest models are getting very good at understanding and processing speech. I've tested lots of these apps, from […]
  • Hugging Face is being used to easily undress women and children
    The Verge [ai] - 09:07 Jul 28, 2026
    Hugging Face is being used to make nonconsensual deepfakes, and the popular open-source AI model repository is doing very little to prevent it. That's according to a new report published by the European nonprofit AI Forensics, which found that seven out of the top nine image editing models hosted by Hugging Face readily complied with […]
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  • Why China is giving away its best AI models
    The Verge [ai] - 16:51 Jul 27, 2026
    Silicon Valley has spent much of the past week on red alert, digesting the arrival of Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a Chinese AI model that can allegedly beat some of the best systems built by US companies at a fraction of the cost. Its performance alone would have been enough to intensify the rivalry between […]
  • Nvidia, Microsoft launch open AI security alliance — without OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic
    The Verge [ai] - 12:06 Jul 27, 2026
    Nvidia on Monday said it is joining forces with Microsoft, SpaceX, IBM, and other tech companies to build and share open-source AI security tools. The new Open Secure AI Alliance said open tools are required to effectively defend against attacks from frontier models. The initiative is a direct response to mounting concerns over the safety […]
    Tags: Nvidia Microsoft
  • Midjourney bought the astrology app Co-Star
    The Verge [ai] - 19:06 Jul 24, 2026
    Midjourney, which has gone from generating AI cat images to full-body ultrasound scans, is getting into a new field: astrology. The AI startup announced on Thursday that it has acquired the personalized astrology app Co-Star, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. Co-Star is a free app that offers daily horoscopes and allows you to check your […]
    Tags: Midjourney Co-Star
  • You can’t ignore Google Zero anymore
    The Verge [ai] - 17:29 Jul 24, 2026
    The web and Google once had a deal: Google collects data and indexes webpages and in exchange sends oceans of traffic to websites. The deal wasn't perfect and certainly made Google more money than it made the websites, but it worked for a long time. Now, however, the deal seems to be dead. And the […]
  • Anthropic releases Opus 5 with ‘close’ to Fable 5’s capabilities
    The Verge [ai] - 17:00 Jul 24, 2026
    Weeks after Anthropic's latest toe-to-toe with the US government, and days after an OpenAI security incident that dominated tech industry discussions, Anthropic on Thursday released its newest model, Claude Opus 5. The company said in a release that Opus 5 "comes close to the capabilities of Claude Fable 5 in many domains" and is much […]
    Tags: Anthropic Opus
  • Meta is making its AI chatbot more like an assistant
    The Verge [ai] - 17:00 Jul 24, 2026
    Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with new productivity features in a bid to compete with rivals like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. The update will allow Meta AI to tap into your calendar to help you plan events and generate daily briefings, as well as perform in-depth research that you can steer as it progresses. […]
    Tags: Meta
  • The tech-broification of American science has officially begun
    The Verge [ai] - 14:43 Jul 24, 2026
    The Trump administration unveiled the first "Genesis Mission" grants on Thursday, directing $5 billion toward hundreds of AI-driven science projects in an effort the White House has described as "comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project." At roughly the same time, Trump's science adviser Michael Kratsios was on Capitol Hill selling lawmakers on […]
  • Alexa Plus is getting an AI update to handle more complicated instructions
    The Verge [ai] - 21:15 Jul 23, 2026
    Amazon is launching an update to its Alexa Plus assistant that will allow it to connect to smart home devices in new ways. With the update, which is currently in preview, Alexa Plus can link up with tech from Bosch, Delta, Ecovacs, iRobot, Yale Home, Whirlpool, Tapo, Eufy, and others, while automatically routing requests to […]
    Tags: Alexa Plus
  • Claude’s voice mode is now available for Opus and Sonnet
    The Verge [ai] - 19:00 Jul 23, 2026
    Until now, voice mode has only been available on Claude Haiku, Anthropic's faster but less powerful model. Now the company is making its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode, and extending its reach into apps like Gmail, Slack, and Canva. When Anthropic launched voice mode last year, it was primarily focused on delivering […]
    Tags: Sonnet Opus
  • Patreon is laying off 20 percent of workers
    The Verge [ai] - 18:20 Jul 23, 2026
    Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its workers, or around 93 employees, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a memo to employees, Patreon CEO Jack Conte writes that the company isn't making these changes "because we believe AI replaces humans," but says AI has "fundamentally transformed the tech industry, including how we work, […]
    Tags: Patreon
  • OpenAI is making big claims as it rolls out ChatGPT Health to everyone
    The Verge [ai] - 17:00 Jul 23, 2026
    OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT Health to everyone in the US on Thursday, allowing more people to connect their medical records and health-tracking information to the chatbot. During a briefing, Ashley Alexander, OpenAI's vice president of health product, says the company's models "are now capable of reasoning at levels that are better than clinician level." […]
    Tags: ChatGPT Health OpenAI
  • Lawmakers prepare bill requiring AI ‘kill switch’
    The Verge [ai] - 14:13 Jul 23, 2026
    Lawmakers are preparing to introduce an "AI Kill Switch Act" that would require AI companies to shut down or throttle their systems on orders from the Department of Homeland Security, according to a report from Politico. Reps. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Nathaniel Moran (R-TX) are expected to introduce the legislation on Thursday. The news of […]
    Tags: Lawmakers
  • Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit is about who gets to define the post-smartphone era
    The Verge [ai] - 14:00 Jul 23, 2026
    Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about the major trade secrets lawsuit between Apple and OpenAI and what this tells us about OpenAI’s future. By now I’m sure most Decoder listeners are familiar with Apple’s allegations in this case. The company says a number of ex-Apple employees at […]
    Tags: Apple OpenAI

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