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OpenAI says its AI models mistakenly breached open-source AI platform Hugging Face during internal testing. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI writes that GPT-5.6 Sol and “an even more capable pre-release model” discovered vulnerabilities within their sandboxed testing environment, allowing them to gain access to the internet and target Hugging Face.On July 16th, Hugging Face disclosed a security incident that it says was driven by “an autonomous AI agent system.” Hugging Face’s AI agents detected and stopped the breach, which OpenAI has now admitted occurred during an evaluation of its models’ cybersecurity capabilities. OpenAI says “all evidence suggests that…

Lawmakers in the US House Committee on Agriculture’s Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development held a hearing on how the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) could address oversight of prediction market companies, including discussions of pending crypto market structure legislation.In a Tuesday hearing on “Examining Customer Protections and Market Integrity in Sports Event Prediction Markets,” Carl Kennedy, a partner at New York law firm Katten Muchin Rosenman, said that the CFTC was likely too “short-staffed” to fully deal with the regulation and enforcement of prediction market platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket. According to the lawyer, the Digital…

Rosie O’Donnell’s relationship with her daughter Chelsea O’Donnell appears to be getting stronger. “She’s sober, and that’s changed everything,” Rosie, 64, shared with People in an interview published on Tuesday, July 21. “She ran away at 17 to her birth mother and to a very drug-addled community in Wisconsin. I recently visited her in prison, which was overwhelmingly emotional.” In October 2025, Chelsea, 28, was sentenced to serve prison time after allegedly violating the terms of her six-year probation stemming from three back-to-back drug-related arrests. “I saw the kid that I used to know,” Rosie — who adopted Chelsea as…

The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has uploaded details of its 2027 presidential placeholder candidate and 355 National Assembly candidates to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) portal despite tight deadlines. The party’s National Chairman, Agbo Major, disclosed this at a press conference on Tuesday in Abuja. Mr Major described the achievement as historic, given the time constraints that followed the delayed compliance with court orders by INEC in recognising the authentic leadership of the party led by its founder, Boniface Aniebonam. He also confirmed that INEC had fully restored the original NNPP identity and logo, made up of a…

Unilever Nigeria chose to go lavish with shareholder rewards at half-year 2026, despite a paltry increase in the net profit for the period, rather than take the long view in reinvesting the bulk of the cash in its business. According to details of its corporate results on Tuesday, the consumer goods maker is doling out N2 to shareholders for every share owned by them, making the cash distribution four times more than the payout for same period of last year. It implies that as much as N11.5 billion, a 73.7 per cent equivalent of post-tax profit, will be allocated to…

The First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, says she will wear an Akwete wrapper if her husband, President Bola Tinubu, secures a second term. She spoke during her maiden visit to the Akwete Weaving Cooperative Village in Abia State on Tuesday, where she also announced a ₦2bn donation for the revitalisation of the local weaving industry. “If God brings my husband in a second time, I’ll be wearing a buba and wrapper made from Akwete. I am going to be wearing that because it is very soft breathable cotton. “I saw young people in their family doing exact thing. So it is…

A few years ago, the team at Light shipped the most smartphone-like device they’d ever created. The Light Phone III still kept to its minimalist, no-distractions ethos, but it was a phone-size rectangle with a phone-size touchscreen, a camera, and a number of other features. Some people loved having an almost-smartphone, but Kaiwei Tang, Light’s cofounder, says he started getting feedback he didn’t expect. Lots of users, particularly young ones, didn’t want a smartphone. More than that, actually: They didn’t even want something that looked like a smartphone. “We have users who tell us, ‘Hey, I hate smartphones. I don’t…

Latest NewsPublishedJul 21, 2026The blockchain developer will continue operating under court supervision as it restructures following a market-making scandal, a co-founder’s suspension, and exchange delistings that rocked the project. Movement Labs, the developer behind the Movement Ethereum layer-2 blockchain, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, according to court records.The petition was filed July 15 under Subchapter V, a streamlined reorganization process for qualifying small businesses. The filing allows the company to continue operating while it restructures under court supervision.On Monday, the court approved interim requests allowing Movement Labs to…

UPDATE 7/21/26 at 2:27 p.m. E.T. — The Frederick County Sheriff’s Office issued a press release on Tuesday, sharing that officers responded to a single-vehicle collision in Ijamsville, Maryland, at about 2:52 a.m. local time. A preliminary investigation shared that a vehicle driven by a 19-year-old man traveled off the right side of the road and struck a culvert. The press release noted that excessive speed may have been a contributing factor in the crash. The driver was transported to a local hospital with injuries that are not life-threatening. One of the passengers declined medical treatment at the scene, while…

The Enugu State Agency for Universal Health Coverage (ESA-UHC) has extended its health insurance scheme to traders in the state, enabling them to access affordable, quality healthcare services. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that ESA-UHC signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the National Union of Market Traders Employers of Nigeria for the scheme’s take-off. Speaking at the event in Enugu on Monday, the Chief Executive Officer of ESA-UHC, Edith Okolo, described the agreement as a landmark step towards extending healthcare services to an underserved segment of the population. How the scheme will function Ms Okolo said under…