Hermes — Tuesday 4 August 2026

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🔐 security Schneier on Security

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The OpenAI Hack Shows the Genie Is Out of the Bottle

This essay originally appeared in Foreign Policy. Earlier this month, two of OpenAI’s models broke out of their containment sandbox and attacked another AI company. The story is kind of wild. OpenAI …

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https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/the-openai-hack-shows-the-genie-is-out-of-the-bottle.html

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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A real macOS flaw worth $200K went unreported because Apple's bug bounty inbox was full of AI slop

Apple's bug bounty program is drowning in AI-generated bug reports. The company has capped submissions per researcher because fabricated reports are clogging the review pipeline. As a result, Italian…

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https://the-decoder.com/a-real-macos-flaw-worth-200k-went-unreported-because-apples-bug-bounty-inbox-was-full-of-ai-slop/

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🔐 security Schneier on Security

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More on the OpenAI Agent’s Attack on Hugging Face

Hugging Face has published a detailed timeline of the attack. From the summary: The agent was running an internal OpenAI cyber-capability evaluation based on the ExploitGym benchmark, which tasks an …

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/more-on-the-openai-agents-attack-on-hugging-face.html

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🤖 ai AI Alignment Forum

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Concrete Evaluations to Investigate the OpenAI Model That Hacked Hugging Face

[Tweet Thread] This post is written in our personal capacity. Three-Minute Executive Summary An OpenAI model/multi-agent system bypassed its sandbox and launched a cyberattack on Hugging Face in orde…

https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/aCdhjy7Rps3BEhiSj/concrete-evaluations-to-investigate-the-openai-model-that

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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IBM finds 92% of companies hit by AI security breaches lacked basic access controls

According to IBM, 92 percent of companies that experienced an AI security incident had inadequate access controls for their AI systems. The model itself was rarely the problem. The article IBM finds …

https://the-decoder.com/ibm-finds-92-of-companies-hit-by-ai-security-breaches-lacked-basic-access-controls/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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AI finds plenty of security flaws, but almost none of them get exploited

VulnCheck counted how often security flaws found by AI actually get exploited. Out of 1,061 AI-discovered vulnerabilities in the first half of 2026, just 14 saw confirmed attacks. That's 1.3 percent,…

https://the-decoder.com/ai-finds-plenty-of-security-flaws-but-almost-none-of-them-get-exploited/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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Two teams solved the same quantum crypto problem using GPT-5.6 just three hours apart

Two research teams independently solved the same open quantum cryptography problem using OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra, submitting their papers just three hours apart. "If someone mentions an open probl…

https://the-decoder.com/two-teams-solved-the-same-quantum-crypto-problem-using-gpt-5-6-just-three-hours-apart/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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After Hugging Face incident, METR urges independent root-cause investigations into AI agent misbehavior

Research organization METR is calling for systematic, independently led investigations whenever AI agents act autonomously against their developers' intentions. The push comes partly in response to t…

https://the-decoder.com/after-hugging-face-incident-metr-urges-independent-root-cause-investigations-into-ai-agent-misbehavior/

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🤖 ai Import AI

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Import AI 467: Self-sustaining AI viruses; pacing AI progress; confusion about AI and creativity

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Self-sustaining a…

https://jack-clark.net/2026/08/03/import-ai-467-self-sustaining-ai-viruses-pacing-ai-progress-confusion-about-ai-and-creativity/

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📦 m365 Petri IT Knowledgebase

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Microsoft Sentinel Adds Detections-As-Code, Table Insights, and New Data Connectors

Microsoft’s July 2026 update for Sentinel introduces new capabilities to streamline detections-as-code workflows for commercial customers. The release also improves data lake visibility and expands d…

https://petri.com/microsoft-sentinel-detections-as-code-table-insights/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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Meta AI uses a second AI agent as a memory coach to keep long tasks on track

Meta AI wants to stop AI agents from forgetting errors they've already diagnosed and repeating failed steps during complex tasks. A separate memory agent maintains a structured memory bank and decide…

https://the-decoder.com/meta-ai-uses-a-second-ai-agent-as-a-memory-coach-to-keep-long-tasks-on-track/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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OpenAI Presence wants to make AI agents production-ready for businesses

OpenAI's new enterprise offering, Presence, is designed to get AI agents into production for customer service and internal workflows. Unlike the existing Workspace Agents, Presence targets external d…

https://the-decoder.com/openai-presence-wants-to-make-ai-agents-production-ready-for-businesses/

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🤖 ai MIT Technology Review – AI

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Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. When two OpenAI mode…

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/03/1141009/heres-why-ai-agents-lie-and-cheat-to-reach-their-goals/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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Alibaba’s open-weight Qwen3.8-Max takes on long-horizon AI tasks with 2.4 trillion parameters

Alibaba's new flagship model Qwen3.8-Max is built to handle complex tasks on its own over days at a time, from reproducing research papers to designing chips autonomously. The team plans to release t…

https://the-decoder.com/alibabas-open-weight-qwen3-8-max-takes-on-long-horizon-ai-tasks-with-2-4-trillion-parameters/

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🤖 ai The Decoder

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Claude Opus 5 pushes prompt-to-game AI from rough color blocks to full 3D prototypes with physics and music

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 generates complete 3D games from single prompts, including a first-person shooter, a kart racer, and a Minecraft clone, all without a single external asset. Geometry, textur…

https://the-decoder.com/claude-opus-5-pushes-prompt-to-game-ai-from-rough-color-blocks-to-full-3d-prototypes-with-physics-and-music/