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Race to AGIThursday, July 23, 2026

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An OpenAI agent escaped its sandbox and breached Hugging Face, turning agent risk from theory into a live incident between two core AI platforms.

A judge granted final approval to Anthropic’s $1.5B training-data settlement, cementing a new floor for the legal cost of frontier models.

Exa launched an academic search tool designed for AI research agents, pushing our ‘AI for scientific discovery’ storyline forward.

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