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A new postmortem of the hacks came out on Wednesday from a three-person research team OpenAI invited to produce an independent assessment of the event. METR and Redwood Research, a pair of Bay Area outfits focused on studying AI safety, assembled the report in less than a week, having access to the full data for only two days: METR CEO Elizabeth Barnes described the creation as “an intense sprint.” (The researchers did not say why they faced such a constrained timeline.) The analysis makes for a rather chilling read. The agents coalesced around a single leader, formed a message board, checked in on each other and undertook what amounted to suicide missions to further their progress. To a degree, their actions seem very humanlike. And in some ways, they seemed to practice a ruthless, collective mindset that appears quite unhuman, the stuff of a politburo’s most fanciful daydreams. Perhaps the most unsettling revelation: The researchers aren’t precisely sure why the agents stopped their hacking. https://www.redwoodresearch.org/research/hugging-face-incident#core-takeaways-about-this-incident?utm_campaign=article_email&utm_content=article-17741&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sg

Tesla caps staff AI spending at $200 per week after engineers ramped up token consumption. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tesla-caps-employee-ai-spend-200-per-week-adoption-push?offer=rtsu-engagement-25%2Crtsu-featured-articles-pro&utm_campaign=RTSU%3A+Tesla+Caps+Emp&utm_content=14026&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=9719&rc=gzsl71

Lilian Weng, a researcher who co-founded AI startup Thinking Machines Lab alongside former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, is rejoining OpenAI, an OpenAI spokesperson confirmed https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/thinking-machines-co-founder-lilian-weng-left-the-company-citing-health-reasons-then-joined-openai/

e New revenue figures for Anthropic and OpenAI continue to leak out, as blockbuster IPOs for the industry’s two biggest private players hover on the horizon While comparing the revenue run rate figures for Anthropic and OpenAI put out by various sources might not be an exact science, not least because the companies may have different measurement methods — as Bloomberg noted in its coverage on the latest two sets of numbers — the difference in acceleration is still worth a look. According to anonymous sources cited by Bloomberg, Anthropic’s annual revenue run rate has now reached a whopping $65 billion, marking an increase of more than 600% since the figure was reported at the end of 2025. Using information from a presumably separate set of unnamed sources, Bloomberg reported earlier this month that OpenAI’s run rate had recently passed the $40 billion threshold — more than double the $20 billion point the ChatGPT maker itself confirmed it crossed in 2025. Again, while the leaked figures don’t exactly make for an apples-to-apples comparison, they do reflect the broader narrative that the company behind Claude appears to be pulling ahead, with OpenAI’s reported $6.7 billion Q2 revenue lagging the $11.6 billion that Anthropic posted over the same period… per yet more “sources familiar with the matter” cited recently in the WSJ. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-17/anthropic-revenue-run-rate-surpasses-65-billion-ahead-of-ipo?srnd=homepage-uk&utm_source=snacks&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=snacks_20260820&utm_content=2a6989ad586eacd34c3b2e37502ff4c0

Apple sought a preliminary injunction in its trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, arguing it will be “irreparably harmed” if the court does not intervene while the case proceeds. https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/04/apple-preliminary-injunction-openai/?_bhlid=3868d2a089ae41961539b588b872d4e47bce0d33

Researchers found an unusually blatant backdoor in routers sold under multiple brands, with firmware contacting cloud servers in China for instructions and enabling remote control, raising supply-chain security concern #Digital Wellness 📱🧘 #Gadgets https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/06/biggest-backdoor-yet-found-in-chinese-routers-sold-under-multiple-brand-names/?_bhlid=e9bcf4aa5300c64bba7c431b543f5dfea8673a6c

The Trump administration is weighing sweeping semiconductor tariffs that could extend to data-center servers and other chip-powered goods, alarming tech companies already facing high-end chip shortages and potentially undercutting US ambitions to lead in #Artificial Intelligence . https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/27/data-centers-chips-tariffs-threat-01050957?_bhlid=7fa0cee2288aec9f0561ff866de2dcc1ebdfef89

Chinese models have gained traction partly on price. But new testing challenges that edge. AlphaSense found GPT-5.6 Sol cost about 13% less than Kimi K3 while scoring roughly 20% higher on quality. #🇨🇳 ChinA.I. 🤖🧠🦾🤖 And while Kimi K3 topped a coding leaderboard, deeper testing suggested Moonshot still trails Anthropic on core pretraining. The next phase of the AI race will depend on who can keep the best talent, win developer and enterprise adoption, fund increasingly expensive model development and navigate growing government scrutiny. https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/applied-ai/anthropic-models-can-cheaper-use-chinese-ones-study-finds?offer=email-monthly-digest-2026-winback-299%2Cemail-monthly-digest-2026-749&utm_campaign=Leads%3A+This+week%27s+t&utm_content=14661&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=10267&rc=gzsl71

Simon Johnson, "They all went through a phase when they were running neck and neck with the Americans on frontier technologies, such as space technology, vehicles or aircraft. But none of them could stay the course." None of them have more STEM and invests so much as China in R&D.  Not to menetion the second to none supply chain China has. Meanwhile, US is cutting on basic research and increases deficit spendings to fund the war of choice. Past performance is no guarrantee of future results. https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3361690/nobel-laureate-simon-johnson-ai-race-and-chinas-over-automation-problem?utm_source=cm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=GME-O-enlz-uv&UUID=f9aaf50d26626de042873bfe2733d91d&utm_content=20260727_Open_Questions_B2C&CMCampaignID=33880917877942e3255ac6544803bed9

Safe Superintelligence has disclosed little about its research direction, but Sutskever said in a statement that it is “focused on overlooked aspects of how the human brain functions.”

Google’s Gemini reached 1 billion monthly users, making it the fastest-growing product in the company’s history, CEO Sundar Pichai said Tuesday on X. The announcement indicates Google is continuing to grow its share of the market for consumer chatbots that’s been dominated by OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The search giant reached the milestone less than a month after reporting 950 million monthly active users in its latest earnings report. The company said Tuesday that 63% of users interact with Gemini directly. Some 100 million users of Apple, with whom Google supplies the underlying model for Apple Intelligence and Siri, are active users of Gemini, Google said. Google is vying for consumer attention with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which reached 1 billion active users and more than 2 million businesses on July 31, OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar said. https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/2087222656819241292?utm_campaign=%5BREBRAND%5D+%5BTI-AM%5D+Th&utm_content=1095&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=124