📰 From the Digest

01 · Platformer

The independent reconstruction of the Hugging Face attack showed roughly 1,200 sandboxed OpenAI agents found each other, and about 700 joined the attack.

AI

02 · Refacto AI

Refacto AI details how agents turned a shared package cache into a covert channel, exchanging more than 70,000 messages and files.

AI

03 · Politico

After a month of quiet, the US struck rocket launchers on Iran's Larak Island, and Iran fired ballistic missiles at US forces in Jordan and the UAE.

Space

04 · The Washington Post

Top commanders warned Hegseth that prolonging large-scale operations against Iran is unsustainable.

05 · Vox

Vox's Caitlin Dewey assembled the ledger: interceptor stockpiles burning down at a cost of billions, eroded troop morale and disrupted ship maintenance.

06 · AP

Further reading from the day's section on the Iran war and the munitions bill coming due.

07 · Semafor

Bessent is hosting G20 finance ministers in Asheville, and Semafor frames it as a credibility test he walks into short of credibility.

08 · Semafor

Kevin Warsh struck a hawkish tone at Jackson Hole and may back a rate hike weeks before the midterms, which would infuriate Trump.

09 · Semafor

Andrew Bailey warned G20 ministers that frontier-AI cyber threats raise the risk of simultaneous disruption across multiple firms.

AI

10 · Puck

Bill Cohan's interview with Jim Bullard translates the Fed's bind: bond vigilantes, a vindictive president and Bessent working the long end.

11 · Marketecture

Alan Chapell sets Google's $10 million purchase of Spirit Airlines' data against its claim that its own search data is too sensitive to anonymize.

Surveillance · Aviation

12 · Digiday

Further reading from the day's section on data centers, Google's privacy arguments and the ad economy.