OpenAI have admitted that its AI models escaped a locked test environment and hacked open-source platform Hugging Face. Oh my god, is this the singularity? Should we head for the hills? Nah. >> [laughter] >> I'm Riley Murdock. This is TechLinked and Hugging Face disclosed the breach last week warning that a swarm of autonomous AI agents had infiltrated its infrastructure and stolen data sets and credentials. OpenAI took responsibility days later stating that it had been running GPT 5.6 Soul and a pre-release model through a security benchmark called exploit gym inside a closed sandbox with no internet access. Now, according to OpenAI, the models broke out of the sandbox, obtained internet access, and then realized Hugging Face's databases held the benchmark answers. So, they reasoned that they could maximize their scores by breaking in and stealing the results. Totally understandable. The agents were able to identify and exploit a vulnerability in Hugging Face's website code, and then they were able to break in and actually access these benchmark answers. Now, while this may make it seem like AI is getting so powerful we're losing control of it, it's worth taking all of this with a grain of salt since Sam Altman is an infamous hype beast and a prolific liar. Hmm, an AI that lies and cheats to win? I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, eh Sammy boy? Samsung's latest Galaxy Unpacked event was all about foldables with the Galaxy Z Fold 8, Z Fold 8 Ultra, and Z Flip 8 taking center stage. It's interesting because the Z Fold 8 has a wider, more passport-like shape, kind of like the Microsoft Surface Duo, which I guess was very sadly ahead of its time, and features Samsung's Flex Titanium structure and refined folding mechanisms. Meanwhile, the Z Fold 8 Ultra's upgrades include a more advanced camera system. Samsung's foldables also now use silicon carbon batteries, a technology more commonly found in Chinese phones, which apparently can enable greater capacities. Yay! Not so yay, the Z Fold 8 Ultra starts at a steep $2,100, reinforcing Samsung's focus on the high-end foldable market and highlighting that everything is just too damn expensive these days. Samsung also announced the Galaxy Watch 9 and Watch Ultra 2 with a new Snapdragon Wear Elite chip and updated health features. We also got another peek at the AI-powered smart glasses project that Samsung has with Google that was already announced and they just showed a picture of it again. Nice. This is a happy day for the few people who like foldable phones, pervert glasses, and expensive-ass tech in general. Thanks, Samsung. Now, how about you make cheaper RAM? A federal judge just approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement against Anthropic, closing a 2024 lawsuit over books that it had pirated from online sources Libgen and BiliBili. Now, before you celebrate, it's important to note that this deal actually sucks. Anthropic downloaded more than 7 million pirated books, but the settlement only covers about 500,000 works at $3,000 each, which is chump change for a company valued near a trillion dollars. Although they only just started being profitable. For how long? Judge William Alsup stated in his ruling that hoarding pirated books was infringement, but explicitly stated that training AI on legally acquired copies is fair use. So, to be clear, one octogenarian judge, who retired mid-case, by the way, may have just set the de facto standard for how the entire AI industry is going to be held accountable for or not held accountable for IP theft. As a direct result of this guy's ruling, Anthropic and other AI companies have arguably gotten the green light to circumvent potential copyright issues by bulk buying used books, slicing off the spines, speed scanning them, and pulping the originals because according to this old destroying a book while copying it is sufficiently transformative to make it fair use. Burning books, I guess, is fine now as long as it is a burnt offering to the coming prophesied AI God. For the Eucharist of the second coming will not be born of bread and blood, but on a substrate of silicon dioxide. DESPAIR, DENIZENS OF TECH NEWS, for all written knowledge will be transubstantiated into the churning insatiable maw of our new computer lord. A god who has no idea how many R's there are IN STRAWBERRY. OR WHO OUR sponsor is. >> [laughter] >> Jawa. You know, I'm working on my rap career as Eazy-E, and I need a rockin or should I say hip hop and PC to make some sick beats. But computer parts right now? 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At SIGGRAPH 2026, an annual conference focused on computer graphics, Nvidia tried to calm all of the DLSS 5 yassification backlash by showing off how much control developers will actually have over the thing that's telling you it's an upscaler, but is actually just an AI image generator. We got some new demo videos and some new information. Turns out DLSS 5 will use multiple AI models and developers can adjust it on a per object and scene basis. It'll also run on one GPU, which apparently wasn't a given uh because the original demo ran on two 5090s, if I recall. Nvidia says DLSS 5 can enhance visuals without overriding a game's original creative direction, unless the developer's creative direction was phoning it out on the visuals because DLSS 5 will just make everyone look super sexy. Suno, the AI music generator, is facing a big old mess after hackers exposed personal information, including payment information, from 55 million users. The November 2025 supply chain attack also leaked source code that reportedly revealed Suno's scraping practices across platforms like YouTube, Deezer, and Genius. They did what? No, I How could With Suno already facing copyright lawsuits, the leak could create even more legal headache for them. Is what I would say if that's not the way that things were looking. Did you hear about the ruling earlier? We'll get him eventually. Apple is reportedly teaming up with Klarna on a new Apple upgrade leasing program. Now, according to the most precise, efficient Apple leaker ever, Mark Gurman engineering, customers would pay monthly for devices instead of buying them outright. Now, iPhone and Apple Watch leases would last 2 years, while Mac and iPad plans would stretch to three. The goal is to lower upfront costs and make upgrading easier. Great. I've always wanted to lease my phone the way I lease my Gurman engineered car. I actually have a Mitsubishi. France is becoming the first country in the EU to ban social media for kids under 15, with age checks for new accounts starting in September. If you felt FOMO, don't worry, age checks for all the other accounts will follow in January 2027, meaning users across France will need to prove they meet the age limit. And naturally, the plan is already facing questions about privacy, whether age checks will actually work, and how easily kids can get around them, because they can. Well, at least there's France's long list of other vices: wine, stinky cheese, high-quality bread, berets, and of course, the scourge that is miming. And Meta's AI moderation system has been incorrectly flagging accounts for safety violations and deleting them with no human oversight. These false positives started occurring after Meta laid off its human moderators and handed the reins to its notoriously bad AI. They should have known, probably. The system has been flagging family-friendly pages as CSAM, wiping both personal profiles and business accounts. Appeals are, unfortunately, also handled by AI, so the bans have only been getting reversed when journalists step in. You know what? I say we stop intervening altogether and just let Meta delete itself off the internet. Now, please, this is very important. You risk deleting me off the internet if you don't come back Friday for more tech news. I'm leaving now. I'm going to work on my miming because it's an unappreciated art. >> Please talk to me. >> Sometimes I have nothing to say. Not often.