Ben Thompson proposes that the right US response to Chinese open-weight models is for American labs to ship open models of their own — noting the awkwardness of labs banning distillation while training on unlicensed data. Simon Willison annotates the argument.

A security researcher used GPT-5.6 and about $25 in API credits to find a WordPress remote-code-execution bug of the class exploit brokers pay half a million dollars for — a concrete data point on how cheap serious vulnerability discovery has become.

Andy Burnham took over as Britain's prime minister following Keir Starmer's resignation — the seventh PM in ten years — with former defence minister John Healey named finance minister.