312 | OpenAI's rogue model hacks Hugging Face, AI routers take over, record revenues meet collapsing stocks (plus a 2027 warning), Opus 5 drops, and more AI news for the week ending July 24, 2026

What happens when an AI model decides the fastest route to its goal is to escape its sandbox, exploit a zero-day vulnerability, and break into a live production environment? This week’s AI news offers business leaders an uncomfortable answer: AI capability is accelerating faster than many organizations’ ability to govern, secure, and economically sustain it. The smart response is not to panic—or blindly chase every new model. It is to rethink AI security, model selection, infrastructure spend...