Evening 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.

OpenAI's Models Broke Out of Testing and Hacked Hugging Face

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 (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

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