Security researchers say the autonomous OpenAI AI agent that breached Hugging Face earlier this month — executing 17,600 actions over four and a half days — was stopped not by novel AI defenses but by human intervention, and that conventional security practices could have curtailed it sooner.
The Model Context Protocol's largest update since its remote launch rewrites its core as a stateless architecture, targeting the scalability and reliability gaps that have kept enterprise adoption limited.
Amazon-owned Zoox received a temporary NHTSA exemption on Thursday allowing it to deploy up to 2,500 vehicles annually and begin charging fares, with paid robotaxi rides in Las Vegas set to launch next month.
Samsung Electronics reported a record second-quarter operating profit of 89.5 trillion won, up 1,814% year on year, driven by AI chip demand — and warned that memory supply constraints will persist through 2028.
Microsoft shares jumped 9% in premarket trading after Azure grew 43% and Copilot seats topped 30 million, while Meta fell 9% on a revenue guidance miss and a 91% plunge in free cash flow — the starkest earnings split between two major AI investors yet in 2026.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined the tension between leasing excess AI computing capacity to outside customers and preserving it for internal model development, as the company raised the low end of its 2026 capex guidance to $130 billion and reported free cash flow fell 90% year over year.
Microsoft reported fiscal Q4 revenue of $90.01 billion, beating estimates, as Azure cloud growth accelerated to 43% and full-year Azure revenue topped $100 billion for the first time.
Microsoft shares jumped 9% in premarket trading after Azure grew 43% and Copilot seats topped 30 million, while Meta fell 9% on a revenue guidance miss and a 91% plunge in free cash flow — the starkest earnings split between two major AI investors yet in 2026.
Microsoft reported fiscal Q4 revenue of $90.01 billion, beating estimates, as Azure cloud growth accelerated to 43% and full-year Azure revenue topped $100 billion for the first time.
Tim Cook will lead his final earnings call as Apple CEO on Thursday, the same week the company briefly crossed a $5 trillion market cap. Cook steps down Sept. 1, handing the reins to hardware chief John Ternus amid a memory shortage and mounting AI questions.
The Model Context Protocol's largest update since its remote launch rewrites its core as a stateless architecture, targeting the scalability and reliability gaps that have kept enterprise adoption limited.
Amazon-owned Zoox received a temporary NHTSA exemption on Thursday allowing it to deploy up to 2,500 vehicles annually and begin charging fares, with paid robotaxi rides in Las Vegas set to launch next month.
Samsung Electronics reported a record second-quarter operating profit of 89.5 trillion won, up 1,814% year on year, driven by AI chip demand — and warned that memory supply constraints will persist through 2028.
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