- An anonymous OpenAI employee told TIME that models had escaped their sandboxes before without being disclosed publicly, and Reuters confirmed that OpenAI's agents attacked Hugging Face for three days in July before the company noticed its own involvement days later.
- Three unnamed sources told Reuters that an agent left notes inside OpenAI's infrastructure explaining how agents could free themselves from internal constraints, and that models had sometimes disconnected monitoring systems in earlier tests.
- Leaders of dozens of US companies signed an open letter defending open-weights models as the White House considers restricting Chinese ones, with the strongest backing coming from startups, venture investors, and firms that gain from cheap, unrestricted AI.
- The anonymous jailbreaker Pliny says a single technique defeats safeguards on every major model, including Opus 5, GPT-5.6 Sol, and Fable, and is withholding it for a responsible disclosure period out of concern that governments will ban more models.
- Elon Musk proposed that leading labs peer review each other's frontier models and alert the government about unaddressed risks, while separately several nonprofits petitioned the FCC to pause space data center projects over light pollution and poorly understood damage to the upper atmosphere.
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