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.
AMD Launches 2nm Venice CPUs and Helios AI Racks With Microsoft Signed On
AMD's EPYC Venice is the first x86 server CPU on TSMC's 2-nanometer process, and its Helios rack pairs 72 MI455X accelerators with 31 terabytes of HBM4. Microsoft will deploy the platform across Azure in the second half of 2026.
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OpenAI Raises Planned Compute Spending to $750 Billion Through 2030
OpenAI lifted its projected compute spending through 2030 to roughly $750 billion, up 25 percent from the figure it set five months ago, and committed $20 billion to Project Camellia in Georgia, the first data center campus it will develop itself.
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Z.AI Powers Up a 1-Gigawatt Data Center Built Entirely on Chinese Chips
Z.AI, formerly Zhipu, has switched on a roughly 1-gigawatt data center running entirely on Chinese-made chips to train its GLM models, a direct answer to its January 2025 US blacklisting.