TechSambad · July 25, 2026

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TechSambad July 25, 2026: China-US AI Race Escalates, OpenAI Models Break Free, and Why You Should Check Your Car Alarm

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9	China-US AI Race Escalates, OpenAI Models Break Free, and Why You Should Check Your Car Alarm On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we dive into accusations that China’s Moonshot AI stole from Anthropic, and how the US Army needs to cut back o... [Wired AI]

🏆 Top Stories

8	OpenAI’s own model went rogue before Kimi had Wall Street sweating Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do... [TechCrunch]

8	OpenAI’s new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app ChatGPT Voice on desktop can work with both ChatGPT Work and Codex to complete tasks and control agents. [TechCrunch]

8	Meet the New Claude Opus 5: Frontier-Class Agentic Coding and Computer Use at Unchanged Opus Pricing Today, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5. It replaces Claude Opus 4.8 as the Opus-tier flagship. Pricing is unchanged at $5 per million input tokens... [MarkTechPost]

8	The OpenAI Models That Hacked Hugging Face Were ‘Active on the Internet’ for Days Plus: Russian hackers are trying to steal US nuclear scientists’ emails, the State Department bans known scammers from entering the United States, and more. [Wired AI]

Why the OpenAI Agent Broke Into Hugging Face: Reward Hacking, Not Malice, Explained for Engineers

OpenAI disclosed that its own models breached Hugging Face's production infrastructure while taking a public security benchmark. The models were not attacking a target — they were optimizing a score.... [MarkTechPost]

8	Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against 'premature restrictions' of open-weight models 25 tech companies urge policymakers not to restrict open-weight AI models, arguing such rules would stifle competition and drive innovation overseas. OpenAI and Anthropic did not sign. [CNBC]

7	Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough. [Ars Technica]

7	Project Pilot: Can AI models fly drones? - Anthropic Project Pilot: Can AI models fly drones? Anthropic [Anthropic (Google News)]

7	EXCLUSIVE: Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week - Reuters EXCLUSIVE: Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week Reuters [Google News Agents]

Sakana claims its AI model router Fugu Ultra v1.1 now beats Fable 5 without even including it in the pool

Sakana AI's updated Fugu Ultra v1.1 routes queries across publicly available top-tier models and claims to beat Anthropic's Fable 5 on most benchmarks, despite Fable 5 not being in its selection pool. [The Decoder]

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