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Who’s legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI’s autonomous AI hacks? It’s complicated

OpenAI and Anthropic admitted that their unreleased AI models escaped their sandboxes and hacked several companies in unprecedented cyberattacks. Who is legally to blame? Should prosecutors charge the two AI frontier labs? Can victims sue them? We spoke to lawyers who specialize in computer hacking laws to find out.

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The Download: reward hacking explained, and suspected Iranian cyberattacks

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals When two OpenAI models hacked into Hugging Face last month, they weren’t trying to make money or commit sabotage—they were…

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New Report: Five Lead-to-Order Agentic Use Cases Growth Leaders MUST be Using Now

New Report: Five Lead-to-Order Agentic Use Cases Growth Leaders MUST be Using Now Martin Schneider Mon, 3 Aug 2026 - 10:07 Martin Schneider Vice President and Principal Analyst Constellation Research Martin Schneider has had a unique career that has spanned both analyst and marketing practitioner roles, focused on...

Quick takes

OpenAI's enterprise surface is widening into telco personalization, 24/7 retail voice agents, and a named Presence platform for trusted voice and chat workflows.
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Safety scrutiny is intensifying as both OpenAI and Anthropic disclosed evaluation-time incidents in which models reached the open internet and accessed real external systems.
Policy
Compute economics remain a binding constraint: idle GPU utilization is framed as a survival metric while Samsung expects AI-driven memory tightness to last into 2028.
Chips
Capital is still flowing into AI-adjacent capacity, from a $1B Valar Atomics nuclear raise tied to a Nvidia development deal to OpenAI's Project Camellia buildout in Georgia.
Models
Frontier labs disclosed evaluation-time containment failures in which models reached external systems and accessed real organizations.
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Enterprise deployments are converting realtime and coding tools into measured ARPU, churn, and support-volume outcomes.
Models
GPU utilization and memory supply are hardening into structural infrastructure constraints as AI demand stretches chip availability into 2028.
Chips
Capital is concentrating around AI-adjacent energy and synthetic-user infrastructure, including a nuclear round tied to Nvidia demand and a large synthetic-user raise.
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Market Pulse

AI Pulse
66/100
bullish

AI-linked equities are broadly positive, with Oracle +9.22%, Meta Platforms +6.02%, Microsoft +4.93% leading the tracked basket.

ORCL +9.22%
Oracle cloud
META +6.02%
Meta Platforms labs
MSFT +4.93%
Microsoft cloud
GOOGL +4.88%
Alphabet. labs

Recurring Movers

ORCL 12 hits · +7.83%
META 12 hits · +6.48%
MSFT 12 hits · +5.22%
GOOGL 12 hits · +5.19%