Eight months ago Sam Altman said OpenAI should be the first company with an AI CEO. This week he said people don't want one. A clean reversal.

Over 1,100 OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta staff signed the Pacing the Frontier letter, asking the US for tools to slow AI if needed.

ICON will deploy Claude across 40,200 staff running clinical trials. Anthropic says enrolment, not science, delays up to 80% of them.

Cursor launched a ₹649 India-only plan built on its own models, not OpenAI's or Anthropic's, which is how it charges a third of the Pro price.

Chinese platforms pay people $15 to $700 to license their faces for AI dramas and ads. Lawyers warn owners lose control once a face enters the market.

Veracode tracked 100-plus models for a year. AI-generated code security is stuck at a 56% pass rate, even as AI now writes half of all code.

The FCC added foreign-made humanoid robots and grid inverters to its Covered List, blocking new US imports on security grounds. The real target is China.

AI-discovered vulnerabilities are arriving at twice last year's rate, but just 1.3% were exploited in H1 2026, VulnCheck found.

Australia's world-first rules making data centres add as much power as they use hit a wall, with Queensland and the NT opposing most measures.

Brussels gains powers to demand frontier model access from 2 August, days after OpenAI's rogue agent hacked Hugging Face. The evaluation unit has 36 staff.

Claude Mythos cut HAWK's key strength in half in 60 hours and improved attacks on reduced AES by 200-800x. No production systems are affected. Each discovery cost ~$100K.

Fitch says a possible AI market correction is emerging as a major global credit risk, citing stretched valuations and $182bn of Big Tech bonds.