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OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face · The AI Hype Index

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    OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face

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    The AI Hype Index: Unsexy AI

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    Sam Altman is ready to decelerate

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The rest of the wire for July 29, 2026 — 24 more stories from 8 outlets, untouched.

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  1. Despite AI hype, Google's data shows workers aren't automating themselves away Ars Technica
  2. AI leaders sign a statement asking the government to do something about automated AI The Verge
  3. AI’s finally expensive enough to make Wall Street nervous The Verge
  4. The OlmoEarth Platform: Geospatial inference at planetary scale Hugging Face
  5. LFM2.5-Encoders for Fast Long-Context Inference on CPU Hugging Face
  6. Perplexity’s Personal Computer turns Windows PCs into AI agents The Verge
  7. The Download: OpenAI’s predictable hack, and an AI stock sell-off MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  8. Smart rings are looking like my kind of AI gadget The Verge
  9. Can the New York Times Save Journalism From Our AI Overlords? Wired
  10. Silicon Valley’s Next IPO Billionaires Are Coming. Nonprofits Are Ready for Them Wired
  11. Samsung’s chip workers are jumping ship to rival SK Hynix MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  12. Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem Wired
  13. Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms Ars Technica
  14. “Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win Ars Technica
  15. Why AI-Driven Cognitive Systems Are Redefining Radar and Electronic Warfare IEEE Spectrum · content.knowledgehub.wiley.com
  16. NVIDIA Cosmos-H-Dreams: Bringing Real-Time Generative Simulation to Surgical Robotics Hugging Face
  17. Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident Hugging Face
  18. Optical Tech Would Update a Robot’s AI on the Fly IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  19. NASA Puts Google’s Gemma Large Language Model in Orbit IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  20. Why AI Needs a “Genie Coefficient” IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  21. Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think. VentureBeat
  22. Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure VentureBeat
  23. Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free. VentureBeat
  24. Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews VentureBeat
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