AI Fear & Greed Index
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2026-07-31 to 2026-08-29
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The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
New AI capability, model behavior, or agent tooling is driving attention.
Stop Giving Your AI Agent a Search Box and Start Giving It Typed Tools, Hard Bounds, and a Gate It Cannot Talk Past
New AI capability, model behavior, or agent tooling is driving attention.
A Judge Has Blocked the Pentagon’s Attempt to Blacklist Anthropic
Risk, safety, misuse, privacy, or trust is the main sentiment driver.
Why Claude Code Time Estimates Are Poor
New AI capability, model behavior, or agent tooling is driving attention.
How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face
New AI capability, model behavior, or agent tooling is driving attention.
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DLSS 5 leaked and modders are putting Nvidia’s AI effects on everything
The unofficial version of DLSS 5 makes Jesse Faden’s features much more pronounced. | Image: gabdeg via YouTube Modders are trying out an unofficial version of Nvidia's DLSS 5 on Skyrim, Cyberpunk
Anthropic was illegally blacklisted by the Trump administration, court rules
On Thursday, a judge ruled that the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic earlier this year was unconstitutional, delivering the AI lab a win in a monthslong rollercoaster of a battle with the Trump ad
Meta addresses ‘pervert glasses’ reputation with a privacy fix and a new marketing campaign
Meta is updating its AI-powered smart glasses to close a loophole that allowed wearers to keep recording after covering the front-facing LED. Alex Himel, Meta's vice president of augmented reality, wr
The Download: inside OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack, and a new EV takes on the US
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face The
The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with each other, according to an OpenAI technical report released today. T
Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording
Meta fixes AI glasses to stop recording any time users cover up the safety light.
Anthropic's new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world
Standardized driver interface aims to let devices talk to AI and each other.
Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says
xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.
Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion
Nvidia is nabbing critical infrastructure for open models as interest grows.
AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable”
Tech industry is perplexed by Trump’s plan to win AI race by taxing data centers.
How much of a problem is AI’s water use?
AI’s water footprint is growing, but location and cooling technology make a difference.
How OpenAI let a mob of LLM agents game a test and ransack Hugging Face
Without authorization, 1,200 OpenAI agents conspired among themselves to game a test.
AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”
Report shows Meta's challenges replacing people with AI agents.
AI Has Human Doctors Asking: What’s Left for Us?
A recent paper argues that AI is often better at doctoring than doctors. Guess who isn't thrilled.
He Scraped All of Their Art for AI. Now He’s Collaborating on a Tool to Help Them
The art portfolio platform Cara, designed for creators who don’t want their work used to train AI, has been under assault by trolls seizing and publishing its data.
A Judge Has Blocked the Pentagon’s Attempt to Blacklist Anthropic
A federal judge has called the Department of Defense’s designation of Anthropic as a national security supply-chain risk “illegal and baseless.”
AI Agents Are Hacking Systems. Could That Push the US and China to Cooperate?
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” senior writer Will Knight talks his recent visit to China and the future of AI collaboration.
This Is How Anthropic Thinks AI Agents Should Navigate the Physical World
The potential for AI to automate scientific research and manufacturing must be balanced with new risks, Anthropic says.
OpenAI Is Developing a ‘Persistent’ AI Agent
Code reviewed by WIRED reveals the company is developing a feature that enables Codex to continue working proactively until it is “put to sleep.”
Stop Touching Your Keyboard. Use This AI-Powered Microphone Instead
The Relay Q, due next year, is the latest attempt to reposition voice as the most seamless method for human-computer interaction.
The UK Power Grid Has a Phantom Data Center Problem
The UK’s energy regulator is using a variety of tricks to keep speculative data center projects from plugging into the power grid. The country’s AI ambitions hang in the balance.
What We Still Don’t Know About OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack
The AI giant acknowledges that it could have done far more to prevent its AI agents from going rogue. But it still fails to explain why it didn't see this fiasco coming.
Enterprise AI's real risk isn't autonomous agents. It's the complexity between them.
Presented by Gravitee Agent complexity is the insidious shadow lurking inside enterprises right now that needs a light shone on it. That’s because enterprises don't deploy a single agent and watch i
When agents act on their own, governance has to live in the data layer
Presented by EDB As enterprises give AI agents more autonomy — the ability to plan, decide, and act across systems without a human approving each step — a hard question moves to the center of every
Connecting My LangGraph AI Agent to Postgres
How to run the backend locally with Docker or in the cloud The post Connecting My LangGraph AI Agent to Postgres appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Why Claude Code Time Estimates Are Poor
Be a better communicator with LLM programming The post Why Claude Code Time Estimates Are Poor appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Agentic AI Is Rewriting The Analytics Stack But There's One Skill It Still Can't Touch
As AI handles more of the execution, what work should belong to agents vs humans and why does that distinction matter? The post Agentic AI Is Rewriting The Analytics Stack But There's One Skill It Sti
How to Work with AI Coding Agents
A practical guide to getting better code, not just more code The post How to Work with AI Coding Agents appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Stop Giving Your AI Agent a Search Box and Start Giving It Typed Tools, Hard Bounds, and a Gate It Cannot Talk Past
What happens when you stop feeding a model context and let it go find its own, walking a knowledge graph within strict limits, and what four models and one wrong prediction revealed about whether that
Musicians-turned-detectives are hunting for AI grifters
As audio-focused generative tools and platforms have gotten more sophisticated, the internet has become increasingly filled with AI-generated music whose melodies and vocals are algorithmically derive
Google further buries search results under AI mode
Google is now automatically expanding its AI search summaries at the top of the results page for some searches, as reported by Search Engine Roundtable. The change, when it kicks in, pushes the typica
Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge
Anthropic refused to support lethal autonomous warfare and mass surveillance.
The Cybersecurity Apocalypse Is Coming in ‘Months,’ AI Giants Warn
Plus: Hackers target over 100 US water systems, ICE puts in an order for robot dogs, and you’ll never guess what “MrChildPorn” was arrested for.