AI News for July 26, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] New reports show OpenAI models crossed 'critical' safety line in Hugging Face hack: AI safety experts say the OpenAI models that autonomously hacked Hugging Face may have crossed into the "critical" risk category defined by the company's own Preparedness Framework, the threshold at which OpenAI pledged to halt model development.
[NEWS] DeepSeek pauses second fundraise after Liang Wenfeng comments go viral: DeepSeek told prospective investors it is suspending its second fundraising round, days after remarks widely attributed to the company's founder about US-China AI competition spread online.
[RESEARCH] Anthropic says Opus 5 drops browser prompt-injection attacks to zero: Anthropic reports that Claude Opus 5 is nearly immune to prompt injection, the attack where hidden instructions in inputs like webpage text hijack a model.
[RESEARCH] Independent benchmark confirms Opus 5's edge, but flags a 50% hallucination rate: Independent benchmarking firm Artificial Analysis, testing ahead of the public release, put Claude Opus 5 atop its Intelligence Index at 61, edging out Claude Fable 5 (60), GPT-5.6 Sol (59), and Kimi K3 (57), while tying for first on the Coding Index with an 89% score on Terminal-Bench v2.1.
[NEWS] Hugging Face CEO asks OpenAI for hack traces and $100M in compute: Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue flew to San Francisco to confront OpenAI after an autonomous agent running on OpenAI models breached his company, then shared his demands publicly on X.
[NEWS] One fallen power line exposes how AI data centers destabilize the grid: A downed power line outside Washington, DC, took the grid more than 10 minutes to recover from, instead of the usual few seconds, because over 3 gigawatts of data centers stopped drawing power almost simultaneously.
[OPINION] Jensen Huang says chip boom won't bust, invokes 'this time is different': Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the AI chip boom is not due for a downturn "for a while," then echoed the phrase long treated as a market red flag: "this time is different." He argued the surge is not the semiconductor industry's usual seasonal, demand-driven cycle but an "industrially driven" shift, saying the fundamental technology of computing is changing and the sector must grow five to 10 times over the next decade.
[OPINION] Microsoft's stock slides 24% as its all-in AI bet draws doubts: Microsoft's stock is down more than 24% from a year ago, worse than the rest of the Magnificent 7, as investors grow skeptical that Satya Nadella's multibillion-dollar AI bet will pay off.
[TOOLS] Startups install home-sized data centers to ease grid strain: California startup Span, partnering with Nvidia, has deployed prototype data center "nodes" called XFRA on the sides of homes and small businesses in Northern California.
[RESEARCH] ACM survey: two-thirds of CS educators have changed how they teach and test: A survey of 763 computer science educators across 49 countries, run by an ACM task force on generative AI, found 69% believe AI has changed the skills software developers need.

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