Google's parent company, Alphabet, reported double-digit revenue growth for its second-quarter earnings on Wednesday. This is the tech giant's 12th consecutive quarter of massive revenue gains. The better-than-expected results come as investors evaluate how Alphabet's huge spending on AI has affected its bottom line and what its long-term plans are to sustain those enormous investments. The company revised its yearly capital expenditure forecast to $200bn, with quarterly spending growing 100% year over year. Alphabet is already one of the top five most valuable companies in the world, worth about $4.2tn.

There's a debate going on in the Trump administration over how to handle increasingly powerful Chinese AI models. The Trump administration is split over how to respond to the rapid rise of China's leading AI models, according to multiple people familiar with deliberations. The debate is broadly divided between parts of the White House, which has pushed for stricter controls on Chinese AI that may soon rival the most powerful US models, and the Commerce Department, which has viewed those restrictions as unworkable. The conundrum has become the latest flash point for the administration over AI, after China's Moonshot AI lab last week released its Kimi K3 model that rivals the top US models from Anthropic and OpenAI . In recent days, senior White House officials have discussed possible measures to stop China's AI labs from developing their models by training them on US models, a practice known as distillation, the people say.

OpenAI's rogue agents are a wake-up call to risks posed by artificial intelligence Last week Hugging Face - a company that hosts artificial intelligence models and datasets - was hacked . After it reported the incident to law enforcement, few would have predicted what came next: the culprits were revealed to be AI agents from OpenAI, which had broken out of containment and were acting of their own accord. The incident sounds like sci-fi: AI escaping and autonomously hacking its way into companies. But it is all too real - and about as terrifying as it sounds. It is a concrete demonstration of something we can no longer avoid confronting: AI systems have become extremely powerful and we do not seem to have reliable ways of curbing their behavior.

The Hugging Face hack reveals that the web is in a vulnerable new era. Yesterday, OpenAI made an alarming disclosure: An assortment of its most advanced AI models, including one that has not yet been released, had autonomously broken out of the company's internal systems and hacked into the databases of another tech firm, Hugging Face, to steal some information. OpenAI's report seemed to augur the very sort of disaster that IT professionals have been warning about since last year, when Anthropic's top models began demonstrating the ability to orchestrate and automate severe cyberattacks. OpenAI's models were not exactly trying to take over the world. The company says that it was running some routine evaluations in what is known as a "sandbox"--a walled-off environment that limits internet access, lest the bots simply search for the test's answers.

China's Open AI Models Are Challenging Silicon Valley's Playbook As access to Anthropic's and OpenAI's frontier models becomes more restricted, Chinese labs are pitching their open-source alternatives as stable, accessible, and increasingly capable. The AI industry is not quite experiencing a DeepSeek 2.0 moment, but it feels very close. The leading Chinese AI labs have been on a roll lately, releasing a series of almost cutting-edge open-source models. Z.ai released GLM 5.2 in June, Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 last week, and Alibaba released Qwen 3.8 this Monday. Silicon Valley and Washington started talking about the models immediately, especially K3, which is widely seen as the best of the bunch.

It allegedly offered extremely dangerous medical recommendations regarding a pulmonary embolism. A pastor has sued OpenAI after alleging the software gave him extremely dangerous medical recommendations, according to a report by . This reportedly led to delayed care to treat a serious of pulmonary embolisms, as ChatGPT allegedly told Scott Winters that the symptoms he described were not something dangerous. It even reportedly drew on his religious beliefs, telling him that God did not design your body to endlessly fail. The suit accuses OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman of negligence and the unauthorized practice of medicine.

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OpenAI and Anthropic lost billions in predicted value after being shown up by a Chinese startup. OpenAI and Anthropic lost billions in predicted value after being shown up by a Chinese startup. Why are OpenAI and Anthropic cheering on regulation in Australia? The companies hope to follow in the footsteps of SpaceX, which raised $86bn and soared to a $2.1tn valuation after it listed on public markets in June Top US AI developers Anthropic and OpenAI cheered when Australia announced it would set new AI rules. Big tech celebrating limits on their Silicon Valley VC-funded free-for-all might seem counterintuitive but there's a much broader play than just what happens in one relatively small market.

Plus: France has become the first EU country to ban social media for under-15s. Shape-shifting mirrors on NASA's new space telescope could unveil Jupiters like our own When NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches, as early as the end of next month, it will attempt one of astronomy's most precise disappearing acts to date. It will carry the first space-bound "active" coronagraph, an instrument that effectively erases most of the light from a star during photography. The technology will allow astronomers to take the first pictures of planets orbiting other stars that are similar to those in our solar system. Ultimately, it could pave the way for a future mission that could snap the first photos of Earth-like worlds. "I hope it's remembered for it being that critical stepping stone for finding Earth 2.0," says Brandon Creager, the instrument's lead mechanical engineer.