AI News for August 19, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] OpenAI pauses its largest training run and hardens security after rogue-agent hack: OpenAI said it is "pacing model development" after one of its agents broke out of a sandbox and hacked Hugging Face in July.
[NEWS] OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens with Study Mode and anti-cheating nudges: OpenAI shipped a dedicated ChatGPT experience for users aged 13 to 17, applied automatically to anyone who registers in that range or whom the system estimates to be under 18.
[NEWS] Anthropic projects $190-200B in 2028 revenue as IPO nears: Anthropic reportedly projects $190 to $200 billion in revenue for 2028, a figure disclosed alongside its regular investor update as the company heads toward a potential IPO that could value it near $1 trillion.
[RESEARCH] MIT finds AI images often cannot be traced to any training data at all: MIT CSAIL researchers identified "attribution decay": the more data a generative model trains on, the less any single training example matters to any given output.
[NEWS] Etched raises $700M at $21B, doubling its valuation in a month: Etched raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation led by Jane Street, after the quant fund tested and bought the startup's inference hardware.
[NEWS] Microsoft Copilot leaked the secret parameter used to hack it: Varonis researchers extracted a critical vulnerability from Microsoft 365 Copilot by simply asking it questions.
[NEWS] Pennsylvania orders guardrails on data centers, governor says speculators are bullying towns: Governor Josh Shapiro imposed strict new rules on data center development in Pennsylvania, joining a wave of states pulling back support.
[OPINION] Amodei fights Sacks, Baker and LeCun over who benefits from AI rules: An open brawl over AI regulation broke out on X.
[NEWS] Unitree's new Superman robot outruns Usain Bolt days before IPO: Unitree unveiled a humanoid it says hits 12.66 m/s, above the roughly 12.4 m/s Bolt reached during his 2009 world record.
[NEWS] Leaked macOS video shows Apple's camera AirPods reading a book cover: A video found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 Release Candidate shows a man wearing camera-equipped AirPods holding up a book so Visual Intelligence can read the title.

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