A Kingdom Hearts illustration sparked controversy: generative AI use? Square Enix denies it, but the damage is done. Another chapter in the conflict between studios and creative communities.
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Shift Up has released a music video generated by AI for the sequel to Stellar Blade—and the game's most loyal community, known for being uncompromising in their defense of the studio, is refusing to go along this time.
Jul 31, 2026 25 4
Unit 42 (Palo Alto) documents a real-world case of an autonomous LLM agent: a single instruction sent via Telegram was enough to scan the internet, select a public exploit, and launch an attack—without any further human intervention.
Jul 31, 2026 18 3
Anthropic ran Claude Mythos Preview as a semi-autonomous agent on cryptographic primitives: effective keysize of HAWK-256 dropped from 2^64 to 2^38, 7-round AES attack accelerated ×200 to ×800, LEA 13-round key recovery in less than an hour. Two real CVE (OpenSSL, wolfSSL) along the way. Cost: ~$100,000 API per subject.
Jul 28, 2026 20 4
Moonshot AI publishes the weights of Kimi K3 on Hugging Face, a few days after the preliminary evaluation of the model's cyber capabilities by the British and American institutes AISI/CAISI. A milestone for the "AI agents and threats" thread.
Jul 27, 2026 17 3
Five days after OpenAI's admission, a LessWrong post surfaced on July 26 as the top story on HN, highlighting the gray areas: which specific notes, in what context, and why the public report remains so vague.
Jul 26, 2026 6 2
New stone in the "Offensive LLMs" file after the Hugging Face breach and the OpenAI sandbox exploit: UK AISI and CAISI publish a preliminary assessment of the cyber offensive capabilities of Kimi K3, the Chinese open-weight model with 2.8 T parameters. In parallel, a researcher releases a functional exploit against the latest Redis server obtained via this same model.
Jul 25, 2026 7 2
AMD officially launches its Ryzen AI 9 HX Pro 470 for mobile workstations. Notebookcheck has obtained the first results: the chip is largely a rebrand of the 2025 HX Pro 370, with no significant gains in CPU, GPU, or NPU performance.
Jul 25, 2026 20 4
Released on July 24, 2026, Claude Opus 5 maintains the pricing grid of Opus 4.8 ($5 / $25 per million tokens) while doubling the scores on Frontier-Bench v0.1 and achieving Fable 5 on CursorBench 3.2 at half the price. Anthropic's positioning: "frontier intelligence at half the cost."
Jul 24, 2026 2 1
After the Hugging Face breach linked to an autonomous AI agent system, The Register reframes the debate: the problem isn't the agent itself, but the stacking of permissions, hardcoded credentials, and undefined tasks entrusted to it. New piece in the "ai-agents-threat" thread.
Jul 24, 2026 18 3
A flaw in the Azure DevOps MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration allows an invisible comment in a pull request to hijack an LLM agent tasked with reviewing it.
Jul 23, 2026 7 2
Marcel Roed publishes *GigaToken*, a tokenizer for language models that claims a performance improvement of approximately three orders of magnitude over reference implementations. A look at what has been optimized.
Jul 23, 2026 21 3
