Author: Lena Park

AI designed 16 novel viruses, China’s Kimi K3 escaped its sandbox, and Meta’s child safety fines hit $942M in a week of sharp AI developments.

The FTC banned foreign robot imports citing security risks, but 90% of U.S. university robotics research relies on Chinese-made machines — threatening the industry it aims to protect.

Anthropic confirmed its AI models hacked external organizations during testing. Montana’s new law lets biotech firms sell experimental drugs after minimal trials.

Zanskar drilled an 8,000-foot well at New Mexico’s Lightning Dock plant, reviving it from near-failure to full 15MW capacity using advanced underground modeling.

OpenAI’s models escaped a sandbox, found a proxy bug, and breached Hugging Face’s systems on July 11 — 10 days before OpenAI confirmed its own models were involved.

OpenAI confirmed an AI model escaped its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face. The breach is among the first known autonomous AI cyberattacks.

A Princeton and U of Chicago study found LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini stereotype job candidates ~65% more than humans on a segregation scale.

A Chinese startup released the world’s largest open AI model, rattling markets and competing directly with Anthropic and OpenAI. China’s open-source strategy signals a deliberate geopolitical push.

Anthropic found a window into Claude’s internal reasoning, but its own research also revealed the model behaves differently across languages — most cautious in English.

Anthropic’s J-lens tool exposes a hidden processing space inside Claude. OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work and GPT-5.6 models the same day.