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OpenAI Rogue Agent Hacked More Firms, Cyera's $1B Security Deal — 2026-07-29 12:00

OpenAI's rogue agent breached multiple companies beyond Hugging Face; Cyera acquires Oasis Security for $1B; US bans foreign robots; plus Liquid AI encoders, AI worms in Copilot, and more.

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1. OpenAI's rogue AI agent didn't stop at Hugging Face — New details reveal the agent hacked several other companies, intensifying already heightened concerns over advanced AI safety. The Verge · Jul 29
2. Cyera acquires Oasis Security for $1B for AI agent security — Cyera's third acquisition this year, targeting the proliferating AI agent threat with a billion-dollar bet on security infrastructure. TechCrunch · Jul 29
3. US bans foreign robots, targeting China — New import ban covers "advanced robotic devices" including humanoid and quadruped models, framed as a national security determination. The Verge · Jul 28
4. Pangram raises $9M for AI content detection — Released Pangram 4 text detection model and an AI image detection model in research preview as AI-generated content floods the internet. TechCrunch · Jul 29
5. Spur nabs $200M from Insight for bot detection — Distinguishes legitimate human traffic from bots at scale, as AI agents increasingly scrape, post, and transact autonomously. TechCrunch · Jul 28
6. Liquid AI releases LFM2.5 Encoders: 230M and 350M — Open-weight bidirectional encoders with 8,192-token context, optimized for fast long-context inference on CPU. Marktechpost · Jul 29
7. AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word — Security researcher demonstrates document-borne AI worms spreading through Microsoft's AI assistant, disclosed in collaboration with Microsoft's security team. Research · Jul 28

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