ChatGPT Image Generation: Six Days on One Open Incident and No Way to Predict a Failure
OpenAI has kept one image generation incident open in ChatGPT since 21 July 2026. The matching incident on the developer interface closed the same evening.
Rosalia Mazza
Open Secure AI Alliance: The Guardrail That Blocked the Victim and Not the Attacker
NVIDIA launched the Open Secure AI Alliance with 36 partners, citing a breach in which commercial AI guardrails blocked the victim's own forensic analysis.
BitMart Shutdown: The Venues Are Closing While Perpetual Futures Move Onshore
BitMart began an orderly wind-down on 26 July 2026, three days after BitMEX announced its closure. Trading ends 26 August and withdrawals remain open.
CLARITY Act Senate Vote: The Police Union Switched Sides and the Seven Votes Did Not Move
The National Fraternal Order of Police dropped its opposition to the CLARITY Act. Seven Senate Democrats still say the merged text falls short.
Cavour Hyperscale Campus: The €4 Billion Trino Data Centre Overrides Local Planning
Italy's €4 billion Cavour Hyperscale Campus at Trino carries a single authorisation that acts as a planning variant and opens expropriation procedures.
Buy Now, Pay Later Adoption Nears a Record, and Its Growth Is Hiding From Credit Files
Buy now, pay later adoption neared a record in Q2 2026, and its fastest growth, among lower-income and renter households, stays largely invisible to credit files.
Claude Opus 5 Fallback: Anthropic Answers Flagged Requests with a Weaker Model
Claude Opus 5 answers requests its safety filter flags using the older Opus 4.8 rather than refusing, so a flagged reply can come from a weaker model than labelled.