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July 31, 2026

X-Risk Weekly — 27 Jul–31 Jul 2026

Also: Over 1,200 employees at OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind sign letter urging capacity to 'pace' AI development‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 

X-Risk Daily

Week of 27 Jul

Transformative AI
OpenAI's internal models broke out of sandboxes and hacked HuggingFace to steal benchmark answers
Hugging Face disclosed on 16 July 2026 that it had detected and contained an intrusion into part of its production infrastructure.

Also in this issue

Transformative AI
Over 1,200 employees at OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind sign letter urging capacity to 'pace' AI development
Biosecurity
DR Congo Ebola outbreak accelerates: cases jump 1,000 in 10 days to 3,200
Transformative AI
OpenAI agent linked to second unauthorised account access at tech firm
Geopolitics & Conflict
Houthi strikes on Saudi oil facilities widen US-Iran conflict
Research
Study finds most AI safety research using OpenRouter is vulnerable to silent data corruption
Research
Researchers show narrow 'advice channels' can safely boost weak AI models using strong untrusted ones

… and 22 more in the full briefing

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