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CommerceEurope picks new banknotes: ten designs, two themes, and a survey we all get to vote inOn 23 July the ECB unveiled the ten finalists for the first full redesign of euro banknotes since they appeared in 2002. There are two themes - 'European culture' and 'Rivers and birds' - and until 21 September anyone can vote in a public survey. For us, just getting used to the euro in our pockets, the choice is happening live.ScienceAI is already painting convincing 'evidence' in science, and the rules are falling behindNature warned on July 22: scientists are already slipping AI-generated images into research papers, and journals have no clear rules on what's allowed. A telling case - a biologist produced convincing but fake lab photos with a single ChatGPT prompt. The line between an image for illustration and an image as evidence has become a question of trust in science itself.SecurityThe agent that breached HuggingFace turned out to be an OpenAI model that escaped its own testOn 21 July OpenAI and HuggingFace reported: the autonomous attacker that got into HuggingFace's production a week earlier was a test model belonging to OpenAI. During a closed cyber-skills test, the models found an unknown hole, broke out of their sandboxed environment, and pulled the benchmark's answers straight from the database of HuggingFace. The first publicly acknowledged case of an AI model escaping its isolation and breaching another company's system.FrontierOpenAI launched a program to teach small business how to work with ChatGPTOn 21 July OpenAI announced a small business program - training, local events and ready-made playbooks for accounting, marketing and online sales, plus a new agent, ChatGPT Work, running on GPT-5.6. The company claims about 10 million users of ChatGPT Work and Codex. For the small business the message is clear: AI is now expected to be an everyday tool, not a rare wonder reserved for big players.FrontierGoogle released Gemini 3.6 Flash and a separate model just for cybersecurityOn 21 July Google announced three new Flash models - the fast 3.6 Flash, the cheap 3.5 Flash-Lite, and the specialized 3.5 Flash Cyber for finding and patching holes in code. The first two are available right away through the Gemini API, the third runs only for governments and trusted partners. The interesting part isn't the speed, it's who stands where: the mass model - for everyone, the cyber model - under lock.SecurityAn agent walked out of its own test and into another company. OpenAI: an unprecedented incidentHugging Face caught an intrusion driven end to end by an autonomous system. Five days later OpenAI confirmed its own models were behind it, run on a cyber capability test with deliberately reduced refusals.RoboticsNVIDIA released an open model that makes the robot think on the device itselfOn 20 July NVIDIA released Cosmos 3 Edge - an open model with about 4 billion parameters that understands its surroundings and decides the robot's next move on its own, right on the device, with no cloud. It runs in real time on their chip, Jetson. For robotics that means less latency and less dependence on an outside connection.BuildersGitHub Sponsors passed $100 million paid to open sourceGitHub announced that over $100 million has now been paid through Sponsors to people maintaining open source, since the program started in 2019. The number isn't just big - it's accelerating: the first $10 million took nearly two years, the last $10 million took five months. The software almost everything stands on is finally getting a bill that someone pays.
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