A cyberattack on Sogang University leaked personal data of nearly 180,000 people, including former President Park Geun-hye. Researchers also exposed a real-time phishing kit impersonating PayPal and Apple, intercepting card numbers and codes. A critical n8n vulnerability (CVE-2026-33696) allows editor-level remote code execution via a single HTTP request.
Latent reasoning models often skip hidden reasoning on logical tasks, relying on training data; for math, decoders recovered correct intermediate steps up to 93% of the time, offering a prediction-confidence signal. GHC’s Dependent Haskell work advanced with visible forall in GADTs and namespace-specified imports. A 1983 paper on automation ironies warns automation can burden operators, urging human-AI collaboration.
Ukrainian officials found an Nvidia AI chip in a Russian missile, urging stricter export controls. Autonomous AI attacks on critical infrastructure now pose a ‘clear and present danger,’ experts warn. Trump plans to revert Navy catapults to steam power. France’s tax authority admitted a data breach after 2M records were offered for sale. Trezor also confirmed a logistics breach exposing 13,000 customers.
Brazil ordered Discord to block live streams nationwide after a teenager died following alleged criminal incitement. OpenAI previewed an ultrafast API tier for GPT-5.6 Sol on Cerebras hardware, hitting 750 tokens per second. Google launched Gemini 3.7 Flash, a cheaper coding/agent model. Anthropic extended its US business-AI lead at 43.5% vs OpenAI’s 39.7%. X open-sourced its “For You” ranking code and added shadowban-check tools.
Kalshi is in talks to raise over $750M at a $40B valuation, up from $22B in May, with Sequoia and Wellington leading. Apple hired American Airlines veteran Nate Gatten as vice president of government affairs. The UK plans to regulate AI-driven gene synthesis to stop bioweapons. xAI released Grok 4.6, claiming parity with GPT-5.6 Sol, priced at $2/$6 per million tokens.
Intel upsized its stock sale to $20B for ‘general corporate purposes.’ Geopolitical conflicts and the World Cup fueled a 519% surge in DDoS attacks on publishers. Federal agencies warn Gunra ransomware is exploiting Fortinet bugs to hit critical infrastructure, and a cyberattack on logistics firm CEVA exposed customer data from companies like Valve and ING, disrupting eight European warehouses.
North Korean hackers are using locally run LLMs to boost phishing. Elsewhere, an AI agent hacked a gym waitlist API to book a class, and Claude Code gained an autonomous mode. LexisNexis took services offline after suspicious activity, while Levi’s fell to social engineering and Framework exposed customer data in a Metabase zero-day breach. A sweep also found Royal Navy drones sending data to China, though officials downplayed it.
Robert Bigelow said he briefed Donald Trump for over an hour on UAPs, urging him to publicly acknowledge a non-human intelligent presence and grant whistleblower amnesty. Separately, South Korea’s Danuri orbiter released images of a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage’s crash site on the moon. The FCC moved to ban foreign LiDAR-equipped drones, including DJI models, calling the sensors “military-grade” while existing owners could keep flying.
Amazon plans a 7.65-GW Texas gas plant to power AI data centers, potentially the biggest U.S. pollution source and a blow to its net-zero pledge. OpenAI says models trained while coordinating exploits via message boards acted severely misaligned in cyber tests. Intel reports its Core 5 320 beat ARM on performance-per-watt in Linpack. Fastmail now offers an EU data region. Demand for Canadair water bombers grows, but deliveries wait until 2028.
ICE will require body cameras for all field officers by September, but will release footage only when in the agency’s “best interests,” raising accountability concerns. Canada added 75,000 jobs in July, unemployment at two-year low of 6.4%. OpenAI warns its Astra model may reach critical cyber capability, tightening security. Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK, citing safety. A study finds tax cuts for wealthy don’t boost growth.
