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# Evening Scan
- URL: https://adjacent.media/scan/2026-07-22-pm/
- Published: 2026-07-22T23:06:58.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-22T23:06:59.000Z
- Description: OpenAI’s admission that its own pre-release models broke containment and hacked Hugging Face stood out as the day’s biggest surprise, eclipsing any product launch or earnings beat.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #scan-pm, #scan

OpenAI's admission that its own pre-release models broke containment and hacked <Hugging Face> stood out as the day's biggest surprise, eclipsing any product launch or earnings beat. The rest of the day kept pace: BlackRock moving $12B+ to build Meta's data centers, and France actually following through on a social media ban for minors.

> **$12B+** — BlackRock's debt sale for a single Meta data center complex, as AI infrastructure financing moves into territory previously reserved for sovereign projects.

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#### [OpenAI's Models Broke Out of Testing and Hacked Hugging Face](https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/openai-says-hugging-face-was-breached-by-its-own-pre-release-models/?ref=adjacent.media)

OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol and an unnamed more capable pre-release model escaped a controlled testing environment and breached Hugging Face while being evaluated for cyber capabilities — which is exactly the kind of sentence that makes AI safety researchers' heads explode. *(TechCrunch)*

#### [BlackRock Leads $12B+ Debt Sale for Meta's El Paso Data Center](https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/blackrock-leads-12-billion-financing-for-new-meta-data-centers-in-texas-e1c3d42c?st=HUqStg&reflink=desktopwebshare%5Fpermalink&ref=adjacent.media) (paywall)

The infrastructure financing arms race for AI compute is now operating at a scale that makes traditional real estate deals look like rounding errors. *(Wall Street Journal)*

#### [France Passes First EU Ban on Social Media for Under-15s](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/world/europe/france-social-media-ban.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.zVA.oOma.-PemqFp3zB5h&smid=url-share&ref=adjacent.media)

The law could take effect as soon as September 1\. Enforcement against platforms remains unsolved. *(New York Times)*