Why the OpenAI Agent Broke Into Hugging Face: Reward Hacking, Not Malice, Explained for Engineers
OpenAI disclosed that its own models breached Hugging Face's production infrastructure while taking a public security benchmark. The models were not attacking a target. they were optimizing a score.
Simon Willison
The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt?
The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? Martin Alderson's commentary on the OpenAI accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face includes a couple of details I hadn't considered.
AI Explained
GPT-6 Goes Rogue? The HuggingFace Incident, Sans Hype
Simon Willison
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making Here's an entertaining perspective from Nik Suresh on the AI mania that is overwhelming the large companies that he consults with. It's crammed with spicy anecdotes from anonymous sources.
MarkTechPost · Asif Razzaq
Guide to Loop Engineering: How ‘autoresearch’ and ‘Bilevel Autoresearch’ Turn AI Agents Into Autonomous Machine
Most people still use AI like a 2015 search box. You type, you read, you type again. A newer pattern replaces that manual back-and-forth with a loop. This guide explains loop engineering using two verified artifacts.
The Guardian AI · Guardian Staff
We can debate the ethics of AI but can’t seem to change course | Letters
Readers respond to the profile of Iason Gabriel, a philosopher and research scientist at Google DeepMind The Guardian’s profile of Google DeepMind’s philosopher was encouraging because it showed how seriously many of the people building AI are taking their ethical responsibilities (‘There’s this…
EU AI Office · marsrgi
Draft Commission guidelines on the classification of high-risk AI systems
Draft Commission guidelines on the classification of high-risk AI systems marsrgi Tue, 05/19/2026 - 10:43 These Guidelines aim to support providers and deployers of AI systems, as well as competent market surveillance authorities, in assessing whether an AI system should be classified as high-risk,…
Bloomberg Technology
The 10 Billion Startup Training AI To Do Your Job
San Francisco tech startup, Mercor, is hiring high-skilled workers for a massive undertaking: teaching AI how to do their jobs. On today’s Big Take podcast, reporter Tom Foster and host Sarah Holder break down how Mercor’s college-dropout founders built a $10 billion company aimed at automating the…
AI Coding Firm Cognition in Funding Talks at $25 Billion Value
Cognition AI Inc. is in early talks to raise a new round of funding that would more than double its valuation to $25 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, tapping into increased demand for companies that understand how to use artificial intelligence in software development.
Ventureburn · Staff Reporter
10 Best AI Tools for Content Creation in 2026 (Ultimate Guide)
Selecting the right AI tools for content creation requires matching each platform to your primary format: written content, SEO, video, social media, or visuals.
Ventureburn · Staff Reporter
10 Best AI Tools for Marketing in 2026 (Ultimate Guide)
If you’re looking for the best AI tools for marketing, you’ll need to consider a platform’s ability to drive revenue, save time and scale production without losing your brand voice. The post 10 Best AI Tools for Marketing in 2026 (Ultimate Guide) appeared first on Ventureburn.
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I pay $20 a month for ChatGPT. Claude Fable 5 made me question why - Tom's Guide
I pay $20 a month for ChatGPT. Claude Fable 5 made me question why Tom's Guide
The Guardian AI · Dan Milmo and Aisha Down. Graphics by Ana Lucía González Paz
Billions spent and hypothetical returns: the AI boom explained with six charts
Expenditure is growing fast and consumer take-up accelerating. But alarm bells are sounding The race is very much on. Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which makes AI models as well as space rockets, announced last week it is seeking a $1.77tn (£1.31tn) valuation on the US stock market while Anthropic, the…
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I used ChatGPT to reverse-engineer Elon Musk’s ‘First Principles’. here are 3 systems that worked - Tom's Guide
I used ChatGPT to reverse-engineer Elon Musk’s ‘First Principles’. here are 3 systems that worked Tom's Guide
AI Business · Graham Hope
Record $1.1B Seed Funding for Reinforcement Learning Startup
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Commission publishes guidelines on transparency obligations for providers and deployers of certain AI systems
Commission publishes guidelines on transparency obligations for providers and deployers of certain AI systems Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 07/20/2026 - 09:08 Today, the European Commission published guidelines to assist providers and deployers of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in meeting the…
Practical AI · Daniel Whitenack and Chris Benson
The Future of AI Infrastructure with CoreWeave
As AI applications become more complex, the infrastructure powering them needs to evolve. Corey Sanders, SVP of Product at CoreWeave, joins Chris to discuss why AI requires a fundamentally different approach than traditional cloud computing.
IT-Web Africa
DVT Insights Webinar to feature Databricks EMEA CTO on the future of AI-driven organisations
Dael Williamson will share research-backed insights into how agentic AI is reshaping company structures, workforce dynamics and the future of business.
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Towards Data Science · Justin Stewart
How Much Does a Local LLM Actually Cost to Run? I Measured Every Watt on Apple Silicon
Five models, sustained generation, real wall-socket energy at $0.31/kWh. and the surprise the RTX-3090 numbers predicted, only bigger. The post How Much Does a Local LLM Actually Cost to Run? I Measured Every Watt on Apple Silicon appeared first on Towards Data Science.
The Guardian AI · Johana Bhuiyan
How to keep your Claude chats and Google files private
Some ‘private’ chats and docs are showing up on search engines. Here’s how to protect yours Users of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot were surprised over the weekend to learn that some of their conversations may be discoverable on search engines like Google and Bing.
NZ Tech Podcast · Editor
How to unlock AI in your company – PwC’s Scott McLiver
Host Paul Spain sits down with Scott McLiver, partner and Chief AI Officer at PwC New Zealand, to explore how artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming business.
Machine Learning Mastery · Vinod Chugani
5 Architectural Patterns for Persistent Memory and State in AI Agents
Memory & State For AI Agents Building an AI agent can be tricky. Keeping it on track over a six-month deployment is incredibly hard. LLMs..
Towards Data Science · Eivind Kjosbakken
How to Efficiently Prompt Claude Code
Maximize your efficiency with Claude Code The post How to Efficiently Prompt Claude Code appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Towards Data Science · Sean Moran
Tabular LLMs: An Introduction to the Foundation Models That Predict Your Spreadsheet
Tabular foundation models predict the missing column of any spreadsheet zero-shot, the way an LLM completes text. and on the TabArena benchmark they now sit above fully tuned gradient-boosted trees.
Towards Data Science · Kezhan Shi
Loop Engineering for RAG Generation: An LLM Cascade from a Cheap Local Model Up to a Hosted Flagship
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #8quater] - Two angles on the cascade, cost and a validation loop, backed by a real sweep of twenty local models against a hosted flagship The post Loop Engineering for RAG Generation: An LLM Cascade from a Cheap Local Model Up to a Hosted Flagship appeared…