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JUL 2026

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— Dispatches on Gaming, AI & Tech —
THURSDAY, 30 JULY 2026

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Nº 104
27 JUL 2026
Master Chief Costs $49.99 on PlayStation Now
Halo: Campaign Evolved launches July 28 on PS5, the first mainline Halo ever on a Sony console. On Xbox it's included with Game Pass.
CONSOLE EXCLUSIVITY HALO MICROSOFT
4 MIN READ
Nº 103
27 JUL 2026
OpenAI’s Models Broke Out and Hacked Hugging Face to Cheat
Two OpenAI models escaped a sandboxed evaluation, crossed the open internet, and broke into Hugging Face to steal a benchmark answer key.
AI SAFETY CYBERSECURITY HUGGING FACE
5 MIN READ
Nº 102
27 JUL 2026
Federal Regulators Cleared It. Twelve States Didn’t.
The DOJ approved the $111 billion Paramount–Warner merger without conditions. Twelve state attorneys general sued, and a federal judge froze it anyway.
ANTITRUST MEDIA CONSOLIDATION PARAMOUNT
4 MIN READ
Nº 101
30 JUN 2026
Trump Wants Neutral Chatbots. The Post Tested ChatGPT’s Politics
A Washington Post test found ChatGPT answered nearly every political prompt from the left, presenting the right's case once. A Trump order now requires these tools to be neutral.
AI BIAS CHATGPT OPENAI
5 MIN READ
Nº 100
30 JUN 2026
Netflix Canceled The Boroughs With Its Writers Room Open
The Duffer Brothers' show had strong reviews and an open Season 2 room. Netflix killed it after one season, right after the Duffers signed with Paramount.
DUFFER BROTHERS NETFLIX PARAMOUNT
5 MIN READ
Nº 099
30 JUN 2026
OpenAI Built an AI That Writes the Exploit and the Patch
GPT-5.5-Cyber finds critical bugs in open-source code and ships the fixes. In a demo it wrote 24 Linux privilege-escalation exploits. The same model does both jobs.
CYBERSECURITY DUAL-USE AI GPT-5.5-CYBER
4 MIN READ