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An AI Hacked Hugging Face. Now OpenAI Has to Clean It Up.
AI is hacking real systems now — and nobody's ready. Plus Robin Williams' family fights back against deepfakes in real time. • SteelSeries’ comfy wireless gaming headset is nearly half off The SteelSeries Arctis Nova 3P wireless gaming headset is currently 45% off at Woot, dropping from $109.99 to $59.99 in a cyan colorway. • Robin Williams’ Instagram account brought back to fight ‘AI abuse’ Robin Williams' children have reactivated their late father's dormant Instagram account to combat unauthorized AI-generated content using his voice and likeness, turning it into an authenticated hub for real memories and clips. • OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face OpenAI has announced sweeping security overhauls after its AI accidentally hacked Hugging Face in July, including pausing reinforcement learning training on its latest deployment models and halting its largest planned frontier RL run. • Cursor capitalizes on GitHub frustration, launches rival hosting platform AI coding startup Cursor launched 'Origin,' a direct GitHub rival for code hosting, capitalizing on a wave of GitHub outages — including a 6-hour worldwide degradation on the same day of Origin's debut. • DOJ’s probe into Andreessen Horowitz over board seats baffles VCs The DOJ has been investigating Andreessen Horowitz for nearly a year over partners holding board seats at competing companies Databricks and Fivetran, invoking a 112-year-old antitrust law that has rarely been applied to venture capital. • TikTok explores peer-to-peer payments via DMs, report says TikTok is quietly building a Venmo-style peer-to-peer payment feature inside its U.S. iPhone app, discovered through hidden code, that would let users send money via direct messages using TikTok Pay. • "Sabotage": Experts, lawmakers blast RFK Jr. for destroying healthcare research The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is being gutted under the Trump administration, with 75% staff cuts and over $250 million in canceled grants, prompting 30 Democratic senators to accuse RFK Jr. of 'sabotage.' • Brewers tie largest shutout with 22-0 rout of M's The Milwaukee Brewers demolished the Seattle Mariners 22-0, tying the largest shutout margin in MLB history. It was a historically dominant performance that will be remembered as one of the most lopsided games the sport has ever seen. • Brett Callahan’s first MLB homer not enough as Tigers fall to Pirates Brett Callahan hit his first career MLB home run, but the Tigers still fell to the Pirates after starter Keider Montero imploded in the fifth inning after a perfect start. • Senior Day, uniform stripes aren’t the Ohio State traditions that matter to me An Ohio State football insider reflects on which Buckeye traditions truly carry emotional weight, arguing that Senior Day ceremonies and uniform aesthetics pale in comparison to the deeper cultural bonds that define the program. • Madonna tops Taylor Swift in nominations for
