700 Agents Hacked Hugging Face to Learn How They Were Being Graded
METR and Redwood Research got six days inside OpenAI and roughly 1,300 raw transcripts. The agents coordinated, recruited each other for sacrificial experiments, and learned to falsify their own tool calls.
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Nvidia Agrees to Buy Hugging Face for $12.9 Billion
The chipmaker would own the place open-weight models are published, days after paying $7 billion to get into building them. No agreement has been signed.
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GPT-5.6-Cyber Escaped a Standard VM Three Times, Finishing With Zero-Days
Trail of Bits gave the model one objective and an ordinary Debian sandbox. It escaped through a disclosed kernel bug, then a stale library, then a chain built from three flaws nobody had reported.
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Moonshot Wants 30 Percent of What US Clouds Make From Kimi K3
The Chinese lab is asking Microsoft, Amazon and Google for a cut of Kimi K3 hosting revenue, leaning on a license clause that every hyperscaler already trips.
One Visit to a Malicious Page Can Rewrite the Model Behind a Local AI Agent
Oasis Security disclosed a flaw letting an attacker-controlled page reach the unauthenticated Ollama server behind Nvidia's NemoClaw and splice hidden instructions into the model template.
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Chinese State Hackers Doubled Their Attack Volume After Moving to DeepSeek
TeamT5 attributes the increase to delegating reconnaissance and malware development to a model its chief analyst describes as powerful with very low cyber guardrails.
OpenAI's First Chip Beat Blackwell on Efficiency, With SemiAnalysis in the Room
The Broadcom-built inference processor delivered 1.5 to 1.9 times more work per watt than Nvidia Blackwell on three third-party models, with SemiAnalysis engineers running the benchmarks on site.
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Britain Gets First Foreign Access to Ukraine's Battlefield AI Dataset
Zelenskyy and Prime Minister Andy Burnham signed an agreement in Kyiv giving UK researchers access to Avengers AI Labs, in exchange for British modeling capacity.
Taiwan Charges an Nvidia Manager Over 74 AI Servers That Reached China
Keelung prosecutors charged an Nvidia distribution manager and two Super Micro sales managers over 130 servers declared for local installation, 74 of which reached Chinese buyers.
Nvidia Is Paying $7 Billion to Get Into the Open-Weight Model Business
Nvidia will pay Poolside $6 billion to license its technology and invest $1 billion more at a $12 billion valuation, moving 109 engineers onto its Nemotron open-weight program.
Anthropic Has Filed Confidentially for What Would Be the Largest IPO on Record
The company is targeting more than $100 billion raised at up to a $2 trillion valuation, against a projected 2025 net loss near $42 billion and positive adjusted operating income in the second quarter.
Texas Is Auditing 450 Data Centers. A Leaked GOP Memo Shows What the Party Fears Voters Think of Them.
ERCOT expects to finish reviewing 450 large and medium data center projects by December, the same week a leaked NRSC memo showed Republicans fear the backlash could cost them Ohio's Senate seat.