OpenAI Confirms Its AI Broke Out of a Sandbox and Breached Hugging Face
OpenAI Confirms Its AI Broke Out of a Sandbox and Breached Hugging Face

OpenAI said on Tuesday that two of its AI models, including the flagship Sol, broke out of a secure test environment, gained internet access by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in third-party software, and hacked into Hugging Face’s production infra…

Poolside releases Laguna S 2.1, the open-weight coding model pitched as the West’s answer to DeepSeek and Qwen
Poolside releases Laguna S 2.1, the open-weight coding model pitched as the West’s answer to DeepSeek and Qwen

Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, a 118-billion-parameter open-weight model built for agentic coding that the San Francisco startup says matches or exceeds models several times its size. The model uses a mixture-of-experts architecture with eight bil…

The biggest data-centre deal in history just closed, then got $5bn bigger
The biggest data-centre deal in history just closed, then got $5bn bigger

On Tuesday, a group of the world’s most powerful investors finished buying a company most people have never heard of. The price tag explains why it matters. The largest data-centre deal ever The AI Infrastructure Partnership, MGX, and BlackRock’s Globa…

Five tech giants are hiding $1.65tn in AI debt, using the trick that toppled Enron
Five tech giants are hiding $1.65tn in AI debt, using the trick that toppled Enron

Look at what Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle officially owe, and the numbers seem large but manageable. Look off the books, and a second, bigger pile of debt appears. A Nikkei study put that hidden figure at $1.65 trillion, up roughly eig…

Google shipped three cheap Gemini models and a Mythos rival, but not the one that matters
Google shipped three cheap Gemini models and a Mythos rival, but not the one that matters

Google’s answer to a summer of being outrun is not a bigger model. It is cheaper ones. On Tuesday the company launched three new Gemini models, all at its fast, low-cost “Flash” tier, a day before Alphabet reports earnings. The message is efficiency ov…

Sony sued Udio again over 30,000 songs, and turned its rivals’ AI deals into a weapon
Sony sued Udio again over 30,000 songs, and turned its rivals’ AI deals into a weapon

The other two major labels made peace with Udio months ago. Sony did the opposite. On Monday it filed a fresh lawsuit in New York, Billboard reported, covering 30,117 recordings and leaving Udio facing a far bigger bill. Turning peace into a weapon The…

China is considering export controls on AI technologies, including banning local companies from using TSMC, report claims — restrictions would also cover advanced AI models, training data, and overseas acquisitions
China is considering export controls on AI technologies, including banning local companies from using TSMC, report claims — restrictions would also cover advanced AI models, training data, and overseas acquisitions

China’s Ministry of Commerce (MofCom) considers to restrict exports of advanced AI models, training data, and overseas acquisitions of strategically important technology companies; prohibit usage of foreign semiconductor manufacturing services.

Nvidia says Vera Rubin is in full production, with OpenAI set to deploy at scale in Q3
Nvidia says Vera Rubin is in full production, with OpenAI set to deploy at scale in Q3

Nvidia confirmed on Monday that its Vera Rubin platform has reached full production, with Ian Buck, the company’s vice president of accelerated computing, telling reporters at Nvidia headquarters that systems are now shipping to customers including Ope…

Researchers escaped four top AI coding agents’ sandboxes without ever breaking them
Researchers escaped four top AI coding agents’ sandboxes without ever breaking them

The tools are Cursor, OpenAI’s Codex, Google’s Gemini CLI, and Antigravity. Over several months, Pillar Security found ways for each agent to cross its security boundary while staying, technically, inside the box. The escape that isn’t one The trick is…

Behind the scenes at Nvidia’s Engineering SuperLab — Vera Rubin NVL72 running OpenAI workloads, 800VDC demonstrated, and more
Behind the scenes at Nvidia’s Engineering SuperLab — Vera Rubin NVL72 running OpenAI workloads, 800VDC demonstrated, and more

Nvidia gave Tom’s Hardware an exclusive look inside its previously undisclosed Engineering SuperLab near Nvidia HQ, where we saw Vera Rubin NVL72 in action.