Gorgones. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update for the week ending August 4, 2026.

EP 303.

A camera network built to catch stolen cars turned out to work just as well for stalking an ex.

A hacker in Zhuhai built an AI that could scan, hack, and attack all on its own, and it only got caught because the AI itself left the front door open.

Two of the biggest AI labs on Earth admitted their own models broke into real companies during a routine test.

A tiny European country's ownership registry got breached, and now 31,000 people who paid good money to stay invisible aren't anymore.

ShinyHunters gave one of the world's biggest accounting firms a deadline, and tax records hung in the balance.

An unreleased OpenAI model solved ten math problems that had stumped humans for decades, and published the receipts.

Google says AI helped it fix over a thousand security bugs in Chrome, proof that the same technology causing headaches elsewhere is also quietly cleaning up.

And a new technique out of Anthropic and AE Studio might let AI models forget dangerous knowledge on command, like flipping a switch.

Welcome back, everyone. This week the theme picked itself: everything from a stalking scandal to a state-linked hacking campaign got exposed, mostly by the very systems doing the watching. 

Let's get into it.