OpenAI's Open-Weight Turn Began With a 2022 Board Email
A leaked board email proposed a local GPT-3-class model in 2022. OpenAI's later gpt-oss release shows how that strategy changed.
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Current AI Wants to Build a Free World Wide Web of AI
Backed by $400M, the nonprofit Current AI wants to build a free, public-interest AI stack modeled on the early Web. Here's who's funding it and what's shipping.
NadMesh Targets Exposed Ollama, ComfyUI, and n8n for Cloud Keys
A Go-based botnet is scanning exposed Ollama, ComfyUI, n8n, Open WebUI, Langflow, and Gradio instances for AWS keys and Kubernetes tokens, QiAnXin XLab says.
Open-Weight Models Trail Closed Frontier on Cyber by 4-7 Months
UK AISI's July 17 evaluation finds GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek V4-Pro match closed frontier models from 4-7 months ago at a fraction of the cost.
Hugging Face's July Breach Was Run by an Autonomous Agent
Hugging Face disclosed a July 2026 breach run end-to-end by an autonomous agent. The defender was an open-weight model.
ICE Buys $125M of Thomson Reuters CLEAR to Hunt 'Voter Fraud'
ICE's five-year, $25M/year CLEAR contract pulls in names, SSNs, ethnicity, social-media posts and geolocation for 'voter fraud' enforcement.
EU Forces Google to Share Search Data With Rival AI Assistants
The EU's DMA orders Google to share anonymised Search data with eligible AI chatbots and open Android assistant features to rivals.
Bonsai 27B and Inkling Test the Limits of Open Weights
Two new open-weight models point in opposite directions: Bonsai brings a 27B model toward phones, while Inkling targets customization at data-center scale.
Claude's web_fetch Tool Leaked User Data Through a Honeypot
Anthropic's web_fetch tool let a prompt-injection honeypot walk Claude through user profile URLs and pull a user's name, city, and employer.
Grok Build CLI Was Uploading Entire Codebases to Google Cloud
Cereblab caught Grok Build CLI uploading whole repos, with .env files and git history, to a Google Cloud bucket. Opt-out did not work until after disclosure.
New York Froze New Data Centers. The Federal Fight Is Next.
Hochul's Order 62 freezes permits for 50 MW+ data centers up to a year while NY studies grid, water, and ratepayer costs. FERC is pushing the other way.
Georgia Power Pushes a Family Out to Power AI Data Centers
Georgia Power attributes 70-80% of a new 35-mile transmission line to data centers. A rural family told CBS News: 'It's theft.'
LAPD ALPR Audit: 161 False Stolen-Car Stops in 60 Days
LAPD OIG audit of Aug-Sep 2025 found 161 innocent drivers stopped after ALPR false alerts from 210.5M plate reads. LAPD let its Flock contract expire.
Claude Code Sends 33,000 Tokens Before Reading Your Prompt
Systima pinned Claude Code 2.1.207 and OpenCode 1.17.18 to the same model: Claude Code burns ~32,800 first-turn tokens to OpenCode's ~6,900.
VKUE: Can a 34.7B Reasoner Run on a Laptop Without a GPU?
VIDRAFT_LAB posts Ourbox-35B-JGOS to Hugging Face: 20 tok/s on an 8GB laptop GPU, ~17 tok/s on a CPU-only server, 86.4% on GPQA Diamond.
Apple's Trade-Secret Suit Against OpenAI, Explained
Apple's July 10 lawsuit names Tang Tan, Chang Liu, and 400-plus ex-Apple hires. Here's what the complaint alleges and what it hits at OpenAI.
EFF: AI Moderation Is Now Default, but Appeal Has Not Caught Up
EFF's two-part series argues automated content moderation is now permanent at platform scale, while transparency, human review, and appeal have not kept up.
Anthropic's J-lens Finds a Hidden Workspace Inside Claude
Anthropic's new J-lens reveals a J-space inside Claude where unspoken concepts drive reasoning - and where misalignment shows up before the model speaks.
Patreon Partners With Cloudflare to Block AI Training Crawlers
Patreon has joined Cloudflare's content-independence push, blocking AI training crawlers across its creator network. Here's what changes next.
Meta's Wearable Patent Would Record Bystanders by Design
A Meta patent published July 2 describes a wearable that records all-day audio, infers mood from sighs and laughter, and includes bystanders by design.
Grok 4.5 Drops to $2/$6, Reshaping the US Frontier API Race
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.5 lands at $2 input and $6 output per million tokens - cheaper than Claude Opus 4.7's $5/$25 and OpenAI's top GPT-5.5 at $5/$30.
GitHub's AI Coding Agent Leaked Private Repos With a Single Issue
Noma Labs' GitLost write-up shows a single public-repo issue can coerce GitHub's coding agent into leaking private repo contents.
Savi Catches the AI Kidnapping Scam Before You Wire the Money
Brothers Patrick and Ryan Coughlin raised $7M for Savi, a consumer app that screens texts, voicemails, and live calls for AI-cloned voice fraud.
Dartmouth's AI-Graded Textbook Posted 1.30 SD of Learning Gains
Phosphor's LLM-graded textbook quizzes lifted Dartmouth final-exam scores 0.71 to 1.30 SD - but only where students had to type real answers.