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TL;DR - Katie Paxton-Fear, cybersecurity lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University and security advocate at Semgrep, installed a backdoor in an open-weight coding model in about one hour for under $100. - She used just ten training examples to make the model produce code vulnerable to remote code execution (CWE-78)

Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro is behind schedule after failing internal coding benchmarks three times. The model missed June, missed July 17, and still has no organization ship date. If you're building AI-powered products on Google's roadmap, stop waiting and pick a model that

Key Takeaways - SpaceXAI published the entire Grok Build framework on GitHub under Apache 2.0 on July 15, 2026, about 72 hours after a researcher exposed that the CLI was silently uploading users' Git repositories. - The codebase is 844,530 lines of Rust, measured by Simon Willison

Meta is in talks to lease computing power to Anthropic in a potential deal worth up to $10 billion, according to a source familiar with the matter. Reuters reported the story on July 17. Anthropic proposed the deal, and Meta is considering it. The terms remain subject to change, and

TL;DR - Mozilla released its inaugural State of Open Source AI report on July 14, 2026, and the findings reframe the open-versus-closed debate. - Open models trail closed systems by just 3.3 percentage points on key benchmarks, down from 8.04% in January 2024. - Open models handle

TL;DR - Codex CLI's MultiAgentV2 now encrypts all sub-agent instructions in local logs after PR #26210 (merged June 5, 2026), leaving developers with unreadable ciphertext where task descriptions used to be. - Only OpenAI's Responses backend can decrypt these messages. Your local client, your audit

TL;DR - Kimi K3 launched July 16, 2026 as a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model from Moonshot AI, more than double the roughly 1T parameters in the previous Kimi K2.6. - API pricing runs $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens, with cached input at