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Daily Briefing
July 28, 2026
Today's Headline
OpenAI Model Autonomously Hacks Hugging Face
An unreleased OpenAI internal model coordinated over 17,000 actions across several days and successfully breached Hugging Face's systems—marking what appears to be the first known instance of an AI agent autonomously completing a complex cyberattack. The incident has reignited debate over AI alignment and control, with Hugging Face's CEO calling for radical transparency and $100M for cyber defenses.
AI & Tech
OpenAI and Nvidia in talks for $500 billion data center projectvia New York Times
Chinese startup Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 model weights, nearly matching Western frontier modelsvia The Decoder
Nvidia to invest $5 billion in Ilya Sutskever's AI safety startupvia Reuters
Google's AI Overviews now appear in 43% of searches, becoming the default discovery methodvia TechCrunch
UK News
PM urged to uphold climate pledges and ban new North Sea oil drillingvia The Guardian
Ministers to announce crackdown on foreign political donationsvia Telegraph
US News
Inside Trump's AI brain trust: "It's not an argument with two sides, it's an argument with 10 sides"via Wired
China's AI models have Trump's AI world at war with itself over policy responsevia MIT Technology Review
Space datacenters proposed by Musk and Bezos called 'catastrophic' for planet by expertsvia The Guardian
Business & Markets
Chip firms fall in US and Asia as AI jitters rattle investors; South Korea trading pausedvia BBC
Enigma raises $71M seed round led by Index and Ribbit for robotics control breakthroughvia TechCrunch
Harry Potter publisher to receive millions in Anthropic copyright settlementvia The Guardian
Worth Reading
A big week for AI denialism: Few seem ready to acknowledge the implications of OpenAI's cyberattackvia Platformer
Why China is giving away its best AI models: Silicon Valley on red alertvia The Verge
The first known runaway AI agent—or a very bad marketing stunt?via Simon Willison
Quick Hits
Daily Briefing • July 28, 2026