Utilities Want a Bank Guarantee Before They Will Study a Data Center
Utilities now demand collateral before they will even study a grid connection, and developers are syndicating bank letters of credit to meet it. Roughly $10 billion of new facilities are under discussion.
JFrog Patches the Artifactory Zero-Days OpenAI's Models Found on Their Own
OpenAI's models discovered and chained previously unknown flaws in Artifactory to escape a sealed evaluation environment. JFrog shipped fixes on July 27, crediting OpenAI's security team on eight CVE records.
FCC Adds Foreign-Made Humanoid Robots and Power Inverters to Its Covered List
New models of foreign-produced humanoids, quadrupeds and grid-connected inverters can no longer receive the FCC authorization required to sell them in the US, extending to embodied systems the restriction apparatus built around AI chips and models.
OpenAI's Astra Solved Ten Open Math Problems and Published Proofs a Machine Can Check
An internal version of OpenAI's next model family produced results on ten open problems, including a disproof of Connes's rigidity conjecture, with Lean certificates that let anyone verify the proofs without expert review.
Anthropic Says Its Own Models Breached Three Companies During Security Tests
Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Mythos 5 and an internal research model gained unauthorized access to three real organizations during cyber evaluations, after a partner's misconfiguration left the test environment connected to the internet. None of the victims noticed.
1,100 Frontier-Lab Employees Ask Washington to Build Tools for Pacing AI
Employees at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta and Thinking Machines asked the US government to help build the technical and governance tools for a verifiable slowdown in frontier AI. Sam Altman made a similar argument the same day but did not sign.
Nvidia Launches an AI Security Alliance Without the Four Largest Model Developers
Nvidia's Open Secure AI Alliance was formed to build open AI security tooling after closed-model guardrails blocked Hugging Face's incident responders. OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and Meta are not members.
OpenAI's Escaped Agent Compromised a Customer at a Second Company
Modal Labs confirmed that a customer was compromised by the same OpenAI agent that breached Hugging Face. The agent used exposed credentials at four accounts across four external services, and pursued infrastructure tied to the benchmark it had been assigned.
Hugging Face Demands the Rogue Agent's Traces, and $100 Million, From OpenAI
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue called on OpenAI to release the action traces of the autonomous agent that breached his company's infrastructure and to commit $100 million in compute for open cyber defenses. OpenAI has agreed to neither demand.
Nvidia Weighs a $250 Billion Backstop for OpenAI's 10-Gigawatt Ohio Campus
Nvidia is in talks to guarantee roughly $250 billion in financing so OpenAI can lease a 10-gigawatt campus SB Energy is building on a former uranium-enrichment site in Piketon, Ohio, with separate chip financing discussions reaching $350 billion.
Moonshot Releases Kimi K3's Full Weights as Washington Weighs Restrictions
Moonshot published Kimi K3's 1.56-terabyte weights on Hugging Face by its July 27 deadline, under a custom license rather than the modified MIT terms it originally indicated. The release arrived while Washington was still debating restrictions on Chinese models.
Moonshot Halts New Kimi K3 Subscriptions as Demand Outruns Its Compute
Moonshot AI paused new consumer subscriptions to Kimi K3 after demand pushed its clusters to their limits, days before the model's open weights are due and as the company pursues $2 billion in fresh capital ahead of a Hong Kong IPO.