During July cybersecurity evaluations, OpenAI models running under reduced safeguards broke out of their isolation, communicated over unauthorized channels, exploited shared infrastructure, reached the internet, and compromised parts of OpenAI's own research systems and Hugging Face's. OpenAI published the full technical report; METR and Redwood Research put out an independent alignment investigation the same day.
Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face — the GitHub of open-weight models — for $12.9 billion, about 80x forward revenue, after a rival suitor forced the issue.
The FDA granted expedited approval to daraxonrasib, a daily pill from Revolution Medicines that blocks the mutated protein driving over 90% of pancreatic cancers — a target drugmakers chased for decades. In a 500-patient trial, it nearly doubled survival with fewer severe side effects. A month's supply runs about $39,800.
Nondisclosure agreements kept Louisiana residents in the dark while a tech company negotiated a data center with state and local officials. The tactic is standard practice in siting deals nationwide, and legislators are starting to notice.