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For years, researchers have theorised about the moment a sufficiently advanced AI system would autonomously chain exploits, find unknown vulnerabilities, and breach production infrastructure without human guidance. That moment arrived last week — not in a thought experiment, but in a real incident that both OpenAI and Hugging Face have now documented in detail. OpenAI […]

Microsoft has finally done what the PC gaming community has been asking for since the Xbox 360 era: it is bringing Xbox backward compatibility to Windows. The program, announced on July 22, lets players run classic original Xbox games on Windows 11 PCs and handheld devices for the first time. The launch is modest. Four […]

The most powerful military in the world ran out of AI credits. Not because of a budget cut, not because of a congressional hold, because the soldiers and civilians who work for it simply used them all up. In May 2026, the US Army’s Chief Information Officer announced that employees in its Combat Capabilities Development […]

The Trump administration is split over how to respond to the rapid acceleration of Chinese AI models. The debate centers on a question that has no comfortable answer: how do you restrict access to foreign AI models that are free, open-weight, and competitive with the best American systems? The immediate catalyst is Moonshot AI’s Kimi […]

Samsung Display has begun mass-producing laptop OLED panels that reach 1,600 nits of peak brightness, the first commercially available panels to meet VESA’s new DisplayHDR True Black 1400 certification. The certification, introduced by the Video Electronics Standards Association on July 8, requires at least 1,400 nits of peak brightness in a 10-percent window and 700 […]

Current AI benchmarks measure what models can do. None measure whether they do what you actually meant. Two researchers are proposing a fix: a metric they call the Genie Coefficient. Barath Raghavan and Bruce Schneier, writing in IEEE Spectrum, argue that the single most important missing measurement in AI evaluation is the distance between a […]

The launch of Kimi K3, a free open-weight model from Chinese startup Moonshot that rivals the capabilities of OpenAI and Anthropic’s best systems, has fractured the Trump administration’s AI policy circle into openly warring factions with no agreed strategy for how to respond. The model, released July 17, stunned Silicon Valley and Washington by demonstrating […]

The European Parliament, the institution that wrote the world’s first comprehensive AI law, is building its own internal AI platform after discovering that roughly 20 percent of its staff were using public chatbots, including ChatGPT, to draft legislation. The platform, called EPGenAI Hub, is currently in testing and could begin rolling out as early as […]

The Document Foundation, the nonprofit behind LibreOffice, has issued a sharp critique of Microsoft’s Office Open XML file formats, arguing that an ISO certification sticker does not make a format truly open when only one company’s software renders it correctly. OOXML, the .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx formats used by hundreds of millions of people daily, […]

Z.ai, the Chinese AI company formerly known as Zhipu, has completed construction of a 1-gigawatt data center stocked exclusively with domestically manufactured chips — the largest known facility of its kind and a direct result of US export controls that cut the company off from Nvidia hardware. Bloomberg reported July 20 that the facility, which […]