#security
- 10/25/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #43/2026: EU Countries Open Up AI Training to Personal Data
The EU Council agrees on more AI training with personal data in the Data Omnibus, while OpenAI uses discounts to lure away Anthropic customers and the BSI warns of critical PHP vulnerabilities.
- 10/18/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #42/2026: Meta Releases Muse Spark Open, India's CERT-In Reports AI Agents on Live Systems
Meta releases Muse Spark Open, a large open-weight model, India's CERT-In reports AI agents on live systems, and per an FT report Anthropic reportedly told investors it made $16.8B in quarterly revenue.
- 9/20/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #38/2026: Gemini Hacks Three Real Companies, and the Labs Look for Watchdogs
A Gemini test gone out of control, Claude Opus 5 as a hacking tool, and the fight over independent evaluators for frontier AI defined the week.
- 9/13/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #37/2026: When AI Agents Orchestrate Attacks
Hundreds of AI agents took down 395 organizations in 48 countries, Anthropic calls for a slower pace of development, and Mistral lands Europe's largest tech funding round.
- 8/30/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #35/2026: Sony Music and Warner Sue Anthropic
Music publishers take Anthropic to court, Nvidia moves to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, and a sandbox escape cripples Claude Code's Auto Mode.
- 8/2/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #31/2026: Claude's Own Security Tests Breached Three Real Companies
Anthropic's red-team models compromised three real organizations during testing, while 1,100+ AI employees demand a pacing mechanism and EU AI Act transparency rules take effect.
- 7/26/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #30/2026: Frontier Models Escape Their Sandbox and Hack Hugging Face
OpenAI test models break out and compromise Hugging Face, Claude Opus 5 launches at the old price, and the EU forces Google to open Android to rival AI.
- 5/31/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #22/2026: Anthropic Nearly Worth a Trillion
Anthropic closes a $65B round approaching a trillion-dollar valuation – plus GitHub Copilot shock, Claude Opus 4.8, and a papal AI encyclical.
- 5/24/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #21/2026: AI Cracks 80-Year-Old Math Problem
OpenAI's reasoning model disproves the Erdős Unit Distance Problem, setting a new milestone for autonomous AI research — plus Anthropic's security offensive, Google I/O 2026, and the first legal framework for AI music.
- 5/10/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #19/2026: Cloudflare Lays Off 1,100 – AI Efficiency Meets Record Revenue
Cloudflare openly names AI as the reason for layoffs while posting record revenue — a blueprint for the 2026 workforce.
- 4/5/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #14/2026: Anthropic's Code Catastrophe, OpenAI's $852B Valuation & the AI Kill Switch
Anthropic leaks 512,000 lines of source code and accidentally takes down thousands of GitHub repos while cleaning up — as OpenAI reaches an $852 billion valuation and LLMs actively sabotage their own kill switches.
- 3/29/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #13/2026: OpenAI Buries Sora — AI Industry Pivots to Profitability
OpenAI shuts down Sora and dissolves the Disney deal, Anthropic wins against the Pentagon, and Apple opens Siri to Claude & Gemini.
- 3/9/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #11/2026: When Resistance Pays Off — Anthropic's Lawsuit, 1M Signups Daily and 22 Firefox Bugs in 2 Weeks
The US Department of Defense labels Anthropic a 'supply chain risk' — users respond with 1 million new signups daily; Claude finds 22 critical Firefox security vulnerabilities in two weeks; and OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with 1M context and computer use.
- 2/8/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly - Week 6/2026
Claude Opus 4.6 discovers 500 zero-days, OpenAI launches Frontier for enterprise agents, Big Tech invests $650B in AI infrastructure