Records. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update for the Week ending July 28th., 2026
Episode 302. In this week’s update. Nearly 100,000 people just tried to learn AI development in a single week, no coding background required - and the attempt to set a Guinness World Record may be the least interesting part of the story. California just built a machine that can delete your data from 600 companies with one request - and the clever part is that the state never actually sees your personal information to do it. An Australian energy giant just confirmed a breach that could affect a chunk of its five million customers. Anthropic's new flagship model costs half what its sibling model does, and it's beating it on benchmarks anyway. The largest open-weight AI model ever released just started finding zero-day vulnerabilities on its own, days after launch. South Korea just admitted a breach of its diplomatic corps sat undetected for ten months. A breach from November of last year, affecting 55 million people, is only now coming to light. And Congress wants to giv...
