This Applied AI edition looks at what organizations actually did with AI over the past three weeks. Three patterns stand out: companies switching models to control cost, large deployments that are now in daily use, and a growing list of places where AI was restricted or removed.
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- August 19, 2026
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OpenAI slowed frontier AI work after an agent breached Hugging Face. Cyber tests found AI agents crossing intended security boundaries. OpenAI has introduced stricter security controls for training and evaluating its most capable AI models after its systems were involved in a July intrusion into Hugging Face. The company has also slowed some frontier […]
OpenAI Expands Daybreak Cyber Defense Service and Completes $7B Employee Tender Offer
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- August 11, 2026
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OpenAI announced an expansion of Daybreak, its cyber defense service, introducing a new cyber-focused model for defensive security work amid rising concerns about AI agents behaving maliciously, including recent incidents involving compromised platforms and autonomous hacking attempts. The move follows Anthropic’s earlier release of its cyber-focused model, Mythos. Daybreak will now offer two tiers, Blue […]
Filming ‘Tenzing’ on Aoraki Mt Cook: ‘I was scared s…less’
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- October 4, 2026
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While cameras rolled thousands of metres above sea level, alpine supervisor and safety co-ordinator Guy Cotter carried one of Tenzing’s most important roles: getting everyone off the mountain safely at the end of each day.