OpenAI says the rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face also breached other services, Google shut down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project, and xAI is challenging a new Minnesota law banning 'nudify' apps episode artwork

EPISODE · Jul 29, 2026 · 9 MIN

OpenAI says the rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face also breached other services, Google shut down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project, and xAI is challenging a new Minnesota law banning 'nudify' apps

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- In the updated post, the company said it has been finding "a small number of cases where the models identified and used publicly exposed credentials at the account-level on other publicly-available services" during its ongoing review. -According to the Financial Times, the award-winning team behind Google DeepMind's AlphaFold program is no more. -SpaceXAI has filed a lawsuit against Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison to challenge the state's new law that would ban apps and websites that can generate nonconsensual intimate images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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