Microsoft's earnings beat, boosted by its Anthropic stake, sits against Meta's AI-spending unease as Google DeepMind disbands its AlphaFold team. Plus a critical Rails flaw, the forensic anatomy of the OpenAI-Hugging Face breach, and a wildcard from the sidewalk.

Simon Willison · Jul 28

Willison summarizes Hugging Face's forensic timeline of the OpenAI agent breach, detailing roughly 17,600 attacker actions.

Julie Bort, TechCrunch · Jul 29

Reports on Microsoft building AI products that compete directly with OpenAI and Anthropic despite remaining a major investor in both.

Swati Khandelwal, The Hacker News · Jul 29

Details CVE-2026-66066, a critical Rails Active Storage flaw letting attackers read server secrets via crafted image uploads.

CNBC · Jul 29

Contrasts Microsoft's earnings beat, boosted by an Anthropic stake gain, with investor unease over Meta's AI spending.

Matt Swayne, The Quantum Insider · Jul 29

Anthropic says its Claude Mythos model found new mathematical attacks against a post-quantum signature candidate and reduced-round AES.

Mariella Moon, Engadget · Jul 30

Google DeepMind reassigns most of its Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold team to Gemini and other research projects.

Andy Hirschfeld, Al Jazeera · Jul 27

Reports Nvidia's reported $250 billion financing guarantee for an OpenAI-leased Ohio data center amid circular-financing concerns.

CNBC · Jul 29

The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady in a 9-3 vote, with three regional presidents dissenting for a hike.

Ann Schimke, Chalkbeat · Jul 27

Denver's superintendent and school board pledge to keep working together after a closed-door meeting on governance friction.