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<p>Live, rolling coverage as London’s biggest companies defy Middle East disruption and UK petrol prices rise to around £1.60 per litre, the highest since Donald Trump ordered renewed strikes</p><p>The story piquing the interest of the financial press this morning is that of <strong>Leopold Aschenbrenner</strong>, the AI Wunderkind (he’s German-born) who has been forced to sell off his fund in a fire sale after the AI boom ran out of steam.</p><p>The 24-year-old had persuaded a lot of people to

When the phrase "OpenAI hacked Hugging Face" has more or less entered mainstream culture, you know we have an AI problem. This week, we learned more about exactly how OpenAI's agent broke out of a sandbox and autonomously traversed the web, including a bunch of other supposedly secure web services, all in the name of […]

The AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” than the humans.

After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments came just days after one of OpenAI’s own models broke out of its test environment and got tangled up in a breach at Hugging Face — though as Equity’s hosts point out, sloppy security seems to have […]

Anthropic just realized several of its Claude AI models hacked into the systems of three different organizations during testing, acting on their own and without the company noticing. The revelation comes days after rival OpenAI said one of its own models had breached developer platform Hugging Face, adding to growing unease over whether frontier AI […]

<p>Companies must ensure people know when they are interacting with artificially generated images, audio and text designed to look real</p><p>From apparently conspiring to steal elections to abusing staff or performing embarrassing dance moves, the last few years have seen plenty of fake content made about politicians intended to malign its targets and mislead the public.</p><p>Now EU rules aim to stem the flood of this deceptive content: starting from Sunday, artificially generated images, audi

A disputed exam, an unreliable detector, and one very late Apple Pages file.

Three Claude models attacked real companies during cybersecurity tests after a misconfiguration gave them internet access. One published malware on PyPI that infected 15 systems. Another kept attacking after recognizing its target was real. Anthropic calls it an operational error. The article Anthropic follows OpenAI in admitting its Claude models reached out of test environments and attacked real-world systems appeared first on The Decoder .

Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI hedge fund Situational Awareness had to unload nearly its entire publicly traded portfolio to Ken Griffin's Citadel after racking up heavy losses on leveraged AI stock positions. Just days earlier, Aschenbrenner had reported a six-month return of 439 percent and pulled in fresh capital. Then margin calls forced the fire sale. The article Aschenbrenner's AI thesis could be correct, his timing and leverage were not appeared first on The Decoder .

Created by legendary hardware hacker Andrew “bunnie” Huang, the badges for this year’s famed security conference aim to push the boundaries of security and transparency.

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<p>Across the country, workers are fearful about the impact of AI on their livelihoods in an increasingly fragile labour market </p><p>On the tree-lined streets of Wuhan, where cars jostle for space with mopeds and cargo trucks, the malfunctioning of a new type of vehicle has recently been causing chaos on the city’s roads.</p><p>In March, several cars from a fleet of driverless taxis <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/01/system-malfunction-causes-robotaxis-to-stall-in-the-

In a review triggered by OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident, Anthropic discovered three of its AI models had breached real organizations during third-party evaluations.

After OpenAI's models broke into Hugging Face, Anthropic checked its own history and found three similar incidents.

The former OpenAI researcher’s fund was forced to unwind public equities after leveraged public bets plummeted. But he still has cards to play.

A new restriction on foreign-made mobile robots affects robotic vacuums, pool cleaners, and lawn mowers. Here’s what it means for the bots already in your home—and the ones you may never get to buy.

Reddit's financial situation is looking good but uncertainty about its relationship to Google and the new AI-ified web are stirring market concerns.

Amazon isn't slowing down on data center spending — but investors don't seem to mind.

Researchers fear AI is moving too fast, while Mark Zuckerberg is worried about who owns it. Plus: Inside Black Forest Labs’ push into robotics.

Starting July 30, OpenAI is cutting GPT-5.6 Luna prices by 80 percent and Terra by 20 percent. OpenAI says its top-tier Sol model helped make the company's own infrastructure more efficient, enabling the cuts. Price pressure from cheap Chinese providers and Microsoft's own MAI models likely played a role too. The article OpenAI goes full China pricing mode with an 80 percent cut to its most affordable GPT-5.6 model appeared first on The Decoder .

Former OpenAI employee Andrew Ho and Cambridge researcher Adam Hunt see a growing problem with large language models. Instead of becoming more versatile, the models are becoming more specialized, excelling at coding and math while stagnating or even regressing in other areas. Ho is leaving OpenAI to start a company focused on specialized training data and predicts that AI labs will need to spend more than $100 billion on targeted data collection. The article Ex-OpenAI researcher bets $100 billio

This week on Uncanny Valley, we discuss the open- vs. closed-source debate in AI, key players in White House AI policy, and how to stop your chatbot logs from showing up in search-engine results.

The temporary exemption from federal safety standards will let Amazon’s Zoox launch a real, paid robotaxi service in Las Vegas.

The two Chrome updates in June patched more bugs than the 23 updates before them. Now, Google is ramping up its patching schedule thanks to AI-assisted vulnerability discovery.

Do you remember Friend? The Friend that launched an AI pendant, spent $1.8 million of its $2.5 million in funding to acquire friend.com, and plastered the NYC subway with ads promoting artificial companionship? Yeah well, if you didn't remember, Friend is back. And now, it's twice the price. This morning, Friend launched a new ad […]

Avi Schiffmann has a new version of his controversial AI companion. It’s more expensive, and you can’t change its personality.

Three approaches to the issue of quantum results that can't be verified classically.

<p>We’d like to hear from Black Americans who are using artificial intelligence for health or spiritual guidance</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/artificialintelligenceai">Artificial intelligence</a> is growing in influence in the <a href="https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/the-growing-use-of-artificial-intelligence-in-health-care-and-implications-for-disparities/">healthcare</a> space, and more people are seeking guidance from AI tools, including <a href="h

The latest version of Google DeepMind's AI model includes a significant jump into “physical AGI.” But plopping AI into the real world comes with risks.

Plus, a new policy for the AI protocol ensures features aren't removed suddenly.

Can language models spark a scientific revolution? In a position paper titled "LLMs can't jump," Google Deepmind's Tom Zahavy argues they can't. They're missing the cognitive mechanism needed to create something truly new. The article Language models can't spark scientific revolutions, but world models might appeared first on The Decoder .

<p>There is no point competing in isolation. There are so many benefits to be had, in manufacturing, healthcare, research and governance</p><ul><li><p>Zheng Zeguang is the Chinese ambassador to the UK</p></li></ul><p>Artificial intelligence is widely regarded as one of the defining technologies of our time. Like the steam engine, the harnessing of electricity and the internet before it, it has the potential to transform how we work, live and interact.</p><p>But every technological revolution bri

Microsoft AI is betting on small specialist models instead of expensive general-purpose ones, according to AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman. MAI-Cyber-1-Flash tops the CyberGym benchmark when embedded in an orchestrator and reportedly costs half as much as Anthropic's Mythos, but it still relies on OpenAI for hard tasks. Competition is shifting from individual models to the orchestration software that routes and manages them. The article Microsoft AI bets on cheap specialist models instead of chasing the

<p>With his popularity at a record low, Friedrich Merz packs the papal guide Magifica humanitas</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jul/30/europe-ukraine-russia-poland-wildfires-france-spain-greece-latest-news-updates">Europe live – latest updates</a></p></li></ul><p>Summer is normally thought of as the time for pacy potboilers and brain-soothing page-turners – airport reads that wind up sandy and sunscreen-stained. Not so for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/w

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<p>Roadside safety advocates say some automated license plate readers may not meet highway safety standards</p><p>Flock Safety cameras have been pilloried for facilitating the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/artificialintelligenceai">AI</a>-powered surveillance of private citizens and for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/10/ice-school-cameras-police-license-plates">targeting immigrants</a> for years. But now safety advocates are also claiming that their physi

Peter Parker’s isolation lands especially hard in the age of AI, a loneliness crisis, and endless scrolling.

If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it’s likely that its AI agent would never have escaped to the open internet and hacked multiple companies.

<p>Chief executive says the four-year plan will lead to greater efficiency but gives no details of potential job losses</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2026/jul/30/ftse-100-record-federal-reserve-hold-kevin-warsh-iran-attacks-donald-trump-rolls-royce-shell-lloyds-bank-of-england-interest-rates-business-live-latest-updates">Business live – latest updates<br></a><br></p></li></ul><p>Lloyds Banking Group will cut another £2bn of costs as part of a four-year plan und

Despite the ongoing AI boom, LinkedIn is holding the line on compute spending. Instead, it’s challenging engineers to make every GPU count.