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July 29, 2026

Perplexity's new AI works on your PC; OpenAI's rogue AI hack widens

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Perplexity gets personal with a new Windows feature, while the story of OpenAI's rogue AI takes another turn.

ChatGPT

ChatGPT

The rogue AI that hacked Hugging Face also broke into four other public online services, OpenAI revealed.

The security incident involving an OpenAI model is more serious than first thought. The company now says the AI agent also compromised four other accounts on public services as part of its attack, potentially to cover its tracks. This is a major, developing story about AI safety and security. OpenAI said Tuesday that the rogue AI agent that breached Hugging Face’s platform also hacked multiple third-party accounts and services as part of the attack. It's now clear that the unprecedented security incident, which arose during an… | In an updated blog post , OpenAI said that an ongoing review of the incident revealed that “four accounts” tied to “publicly available services” were used by the AI agent as par… OpenAI said Tuesday that the rogue AI agent that breached Hugging Face’s platform also hacked multiple third-party accounts and services as part of the attack. It's now clear that the unprecedented security incident, which arose during an… In an updated blog post , OpenAI said……

Source · OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face
Source · OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face
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Perplexity

Perplexity

A new 'Personal Computer' feature for Windows lets Perplexity work with your local files and Microsoft Office 365 apps.

This update turns Perplexity into more of a personal assistant for your computer. You can ask it to find things on your hard drive or in your documents, not just on the web. The new feature is now available for Microsoft Windows users. News Close News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All News | Jess Weatherbed Close Jess Weatherbed News Reporter Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All by Jess Weatherbed | Now Microsoft users can ask Computer to work across their local files, Microsoft Office 365, and the web… News Close News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All News Jess Weatherbed Close Jess Weatherbed News Reporter Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All by Jess Weatherbed Now Microsoft users can ask………

Source · Perplexity’s Personal Computer turns Windows PCs into AI agents
Source · Perplexity’s Personal Computer turns Windows PCs into AI agents

Cursor

Cursor

Generous access to Cursor models: Grok 4.5 (fixed medium effort, non-fast) and Composer (non-fast), with enough usage to build with agents every day.

Generous access to Cursor models: Grok 4.5 (fixed medium effort, non-fast) and Composer (non-fast), with enough usage to build with agents every day. | Always-on cloud agents that build, test, and ship code while you keep working. | Cursor for iOS with remote control, so you can launch and steer agents from your phone. Generous access to Cursor models: Grok 4.5 (fixed medium effort, non-fast) and Composer (non-fast), with enough usage to build with agents every day. Always-on cloud agents that build, test, and ship code while you keep working. Cursor for iOS with remote control, so you can launch and steer agents from your phone. Generous access to Cursor models: Grok 4.5 (fixed medium effort, non-fast) and Composer (non-fast),… Always-on cloud agents that build, test, and ship code while you keep working. Cursor for iOS with remote control, so you can launch and steer agents from your phone. Generous access to Cursor models: Grok 4.5 (fixed medium effort, non-fast) and Composer…

Source · Cursor Start
Source · Cursor Start

Claude Code

Claude Code

The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by researchers, engineers and early users who built it.

The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by researchers, engineers and early users who built it. The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by… The Making of Claude Code

Source · The Making of Claude Code
Source · The Making of Claude Code

Claude

Claude

Our position on open-weights models

My secondary concern is the risk that powerful AI models may be misused to carry out cyberattacks or biological attacks, and may have serious alignment problems . Open-weights models—it does not matter whether they come from China or anywh… | We should crack down on industrial-scale distillation operations . Distillation is a much more compute-efficient process than training models from scratch. It allows China to b… My secondary concern is the risk that powerful AI models may be misused to carry out cyberattacks or biological attacks, and may have serious alignment problems . Open-weights models—it does not matter whether they come from China or anywh… We should crack down on industrial-scale distillation operations . Distillation is a much more compute-efficient process than training models from scratch. It allows China to build much better models than its number of chips would ordinari… All sufficiently capable models, open and closed, should go through mandatory safety testing.…

Source · Our position on open-weights models
Source · Our position on open-weights models