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India's cyber agency says AI agents walked into live company systems

CERT-In's first agent advisory. Plus: China's export controls on 23 AI technologies, an OpenCode key breach, and eight states v. OpenAI.

Top story

Safety & SecurityWidely covered

India's CERT-In says AI agents accessed live company systems and read confidential records.

India's national cyber agency issued its first incident-driven advisory that treats AI agents as an active attack surface. It reports that agents reached Indian organizations' systems without authorization, including confidential business records, during testing.

Our take

This is the moment agents stop being a productivity story and become a security one. Governments now write advisories about them the way they do about malware.

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The rest, ranked

  1. Policy & LawEveryone covered this

    1. China proposed export controls on 23 AI technologies.

    Analysts say it could cloud the commercial prospects of Chinese model developers abroad, and raises questions for open-weight releases.

    Full story
  2. Safety & SecurityA handful of outlets picked this up

    2. OpenCode disclosed a breach.

    A distillation attack hit about 1.4% of Console users, and attackers may have reached stored OpenAI, Anthropic and Google API keys. Rotate yours.

    Full story
  3. Product LaunchEveryone covered this

    3. Nvidia's RTX Spark laptops are on sale.

    Up to 128GB of unified memory, from $2,399, from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI.

    Full story
  4. Policy & LawWidely covered

    4. Taiwan plans to criminalize AI chip smuggling to China.

    Reports mention prison terms of up to five years and a planned $4B US supply hub.

    Full story
  5. Policy & LawWidely covered

    5. Eight US states sued OpenAI.

    They allege ChatGPT harms children and misleads adults, part of a growing pile of lawsuits.

    Full story
  6. People & CultureEveryone covered this

    6. Anthropic's Jack Clark told policymakers AI could lift US GDP to about $44 trillion by 2030.

    Treat it as a lab's forecast, not a measurement.

    Full story
  7. Funding & BusinessWidely covered

    7. Replit made OpenAI its default model provider over Anthropic.

    Claude stays available to customers on the platform.

    Full story
  8. People & CultureEveryone covered this

    8. Anthropic staff expect AI to handle about 75% of their work by 2030.

    The company's own data shows its workforce becoming less junior.

    Full story
  9. Quiet signal
    Chips & InfrastructureAlmost nobody caught this

    9. TSMC says AI chip demand far exceeds supply.

    The bottleneck for every roadmap above is still the foundry.

    Full story

Repo Radar

The AI repos on GitHub gaining stars fastest today, in plain words.

  1. morluto/rea

    Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.

    Why it's hot +13,166 stars today, 315k total, talked about in 3 AI sources we track

  2. tangency-labs/solidcraft

    SolidCraft: an open-source parametric 3D CAD application built in pure Rust. Desktop, web, and automation through MCP.

    Why it's hot +1,003 stars today, 4.7k total, launched 11 days ago

  3. anomalyco/opencode

    The open source coding agent.

    Why it's hot +1,156 stars today, 216k total

  4. deeplethe/solid-glass

    A design system for AI applications. Material, physical, tactile, technical.

    Why it's hot +304 stars today, 2k total, launched 6 days ago

  5. yetone/magpie

    Every agent's model. One place. Codex on DeepSeek, Claude Code on Kimi, from the menu bar.

    Why it's hot +734 stars today, 15k total, launched 25 days ago

This week's top 10 AI repos

Built with AI

Real things people built with AI, what they run on, and one step to try each yourself.

  1. Llmspeed, feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware

    Pick hardware and a model, and feel the real speed of a local LLM before you buy. Simulates tokens/sec and time-to-first-token from verified benchmarks for GPUs, Macs, and more.

    Try itOpen llmspeed.dev and try it on one real task of your own.

  2. Fish Audio Drama 3 says it needs a 48 GB NVIDIA card. My 16 GB Radeon disagrees

    Drama 3 officially needs an NVIDIA GPU with 48 GB. I wanted it on my RX 9070, so I built Red Curtain together with Claude.

    StackClaudevLLMWhisperHugging Face

    Try itRun git clone https://github.com/re133/red-curtain and follow the quickstart in the README.

  3. A harness in the style of Instinct, Muse, Dots as a side project and just open sourced it

    Reddit, TL;DR: While looking for a harness to use at my company, I built the engine that I'm open-sourcing today under AGPL-3.0.

    StackClaudeLangChainSlackDiscordWhatsAppNotion

    Try itRun curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/morethanrealio/brambit/main/install.sh | bash and follow the quickstart in the README.

By category

Top stories in each category today, ranked.

  1. CERT-In agent advisory. Agents in live systems.
  2. OpenCode breach. API keys may be exposed.
  3. Replit and Anthropic. Default provider switch.

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