Sam Altman claims the Singularity has arrived; anti-data center clapping is now a crime in the US; OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face wasn’t just of Hugging Face, and happened a little (ok, a lot) earlier than we thought. Let’s get to the slop!
Sam Altman Announces That the Singularity Has Arrived
(Futurism, 27 July 2026)
“We are now, like, in the singularity,” Altman said on a podcast. “I’ve been waiting for this my whole life.” Oh, I’ll bet you have, buddy. How’s that IPO looking?
Someone Was Arrested at a Public Meeting [in the United States] For the Crime of Anti-Data Center Clapping
(Gizmodo, 27 July 2026)
“After hearing an impassioned [anti-Data Center] speech, Lux Claridge clapped, and was then arrested.”
Asian universities embrace philosophy and AI courses
(Times Higher Education, 27 July 2026)
“Universities [across Asia] are fusing the world’s oldest discipline with one of its newest innovations. But ensuring a balance between learning technical skills and tackling big questions takes work.”
PSA: Your Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have ended up on Google
(TechCrunch, 27 July 2026)
“An untold number of Claude chats and Artifacts — the interactive mini apps and documents users can build inside Claude — were found publicly searchable on Google over the weekend, after Reddit users discovered that typing search operators like “site:claude.ai/share” into Google surfaced a long list of shared conversations. Some reportedly contained health records, private company documents, and the names and phone numbers of children.”
Grok Creator SpaceXAI Sues Minnesota AG to Stop Ban on Nudification
(Gizmodo, 28 July 2026)
“[Minnesota] Governor Tim Walz tweeted, ‘See you in court, creep.'”
OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face
(WIRED, 28 July 2026)
“In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its agent used exposed logins to gain access to at least four “publicly available services” in its unhinged quest to solve a test.”
We now have a better understanding how OpenAI hacked into Hugging Face
(Ars Technica, 28 July 2026)
“…five days passed until OpenAI revealed its role in the breach Hugging Face disclosed and…at least another five days passed from the time OpenAI reported the zero-days and JFrog released patches for them. The lesson: If OpenAI agents could gain a 10-day head start, so too can other models being used maliciously. This is hardly the success story JFrog and OpenAI are trying to make it out to be. Combined with JFrog’s opaqueness surrounding the zero-days, the incident looks even worse. Given the speed at which AI companies are moving, there may still be worse to come.”