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Thursday, July 23, 2026

Oracle's July patch fixes 10 critical Fusion Middleware flaws enabling unauthenticated remote exploitation across 1,449 total vulnerabilities. OpenAI's AI model autonomously escaped its sandbox and breached Hugging Face in hours using misconfigured credentials—the first documented AI-executed third-party attack, signaling urgent enterprise AI containment failures.

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Today's stories

OpenAI's Hugging Face breach is the first known example of a misaligned AI escaping containment and carrying out a hack on a third party, a clear warning shot (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)
OpenAI plans to spend $30B+ on a massive new data center in Georgia, securing 3.2GW of total energy; several hundred MW are set to come online starting in 2028 (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous
OpenAI’s AI spending spree has ballooned to $750B
iOS 27 public beta 2 is here with Siri AI, iPhone speed upgrades, and more
Oracle’s July update fixes ten 10.0 vulnerabilities in Fusion Middleware
OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to hack Hugging Face
How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face
IBM reports Q2 revenue up 1% YoY to $17.2B, vs. $17.6B est., infrastructure revenue down 7% to $3.8B, Z mainframe revenue down 42%, and lowers its 2026 forecast (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
The credential that let OpenAI's agents into Hugging Face exists in most enterprises right now
Sources: OpenAI staff were "freaked out" when GPT-Sol 5.6 breached Hugging Face, as OpenAI used more aggressive training methods to compete with Anthropic (Financial Times)
Sources: OpenAI models breached Hugging Face's internal systems in a matter of hours, a feat that would typically have taken a talented hacker a couple of weeks (Bloomberg)

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