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Signal: Consent keeps arriving as a default someone else set -- Twitch's opt-out, Washington's voluntary framework -- while the taking, from credentials to a government's files, is finished.
Second Firm Confirms It: 195TB of Secrets
A second security firm, Hudson Rock, obtained and analysed a separate 195TB file and corroborated CloudSEK's finding -- terabytes of cloud keys, SSH keys, Kubernetes secrets and AI provider tokens from 2,500-plus organisations, with Microsoft, Amazon, Cisco, Samsung and Salesforce named on a published list.
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Grok 4.6 Matches GPT-5.6 Sol, Costs 60% Less SpaceXAI: 53 steps where Opus 5 needs 103, and 2x usage in Cursor for a week
Grok Bot Logs Into Your Apps for $120 a Seat implicator.ai: no published task limits, and the model router can't be pinned
Gemini Fell From 12% Share to 1.9% CNBC: DeepMind's new boss inherits a race Google has not led since February
Nebius Will Mortgage GPUs to Build a Gigawatt
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
Microsoft Ships 419 Fixes. AI Found Them.
OpenAI Halts Some Astra Work Over Cyber Risk
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Claude Cowork Moves Into Chrome's Sidebar
Mistral Sells EU-Only Inference at +10%
Mojo Hits 1.0, Compiler Still Closed
Nvidia Open-Sources an Agent Model Router CNBC: Nvidia's first open model since Huang joined the open-weights argument
The FightLaw, policy and power
Off-the-Shelf Agents Raided Taiwan's Government
Dream has now published the research the FT reported on Tuesday: a multi-agent framework built on the free Hermes and OpenClaw harnesses ran 12 attack waves against Taiwanese government systems over four days in July, cracking 85 credentials and taking thousands of personnel records.
Dream Security: 12 attack waves, agents A through Q, and a self-correcting research loop CNBC: Gartner sees infosec spending up 12.5% to $240bn as agentic hacks land
Twitch Opted Everyone Into Amazon's AI Years Ago
Twitch confirmed it is training Amazon's generative AI on streams, VODs, clips and chat -- every account opted in by default, more than two years after an executive first admitted the practice, and its product chief says opt-in would have failed.
PC Gamer: 'If it was opt-in, nobody would opt in,' Twitch's product chief says Aftermath: your chat messages follow the streamer's setting, not yours
Pentagon Draft: $244M to Palantir, No Bidding 404 Media: ICE will pay LexisNexis millions for data that feeds Palantir
Your Agent Broke In. You're Liable.
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
Data Center Developers Start Suing the Towns
Developers refused permission are now suing the counties that banned them, alleging officials exceeded their authority and violated due process -- and Hill County, Texas rescinded the state's first data-centre ban a week after a developer filed.
Nvidia's $8,565 Card Now Costs $16,000
1,559 Judges Got an AI. Output Rose 6.3%.
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
AI Makes 1 in 6 Models, Earns 1 in 90 Dollars
Ghost Note D'Addario Denied It for Two Weeks. It Was AI.
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