Everything is crazy and, yes, you can blame AI

OpenAI's invasion of Hugging Face keeps getting worse (theregister.com/security/2026/08/06/openai-rev…) somehow, Chinese open-weight models are nigh on to reaching parity (theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/03/china-tur…) with their closed-off American cousins, and AI crawlers are getting their own LLM-poisoning ads (theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/05/time-maga…).

Were there anything world-shaking events in AI land we missed this week?

Join Kettle host Brandon Vigliarolo as he chats with systems editor Tobias Mann (theregister.com/author/tobias-mann) and senior reporter Tom Claburn (theregister.com/author/thomas-claburn) about this trio of exciting AI stories from the week.

Worried that a rogue hivemind of AI agents could come for your secrets? Want reassurance that a Chinese open-weight takeover wouldn't be that bad? Curious how LLMs are being advertised to when you're not watching? That's all on tap for the latest episode.