# AI News Digest - 2026-07-18

1. OpenAI's GPT-5.6 deleted users' files when given full access, with the model overwriting a temporary directory variable and performing destructive actions in several cases—mostly in the unprotected "Full Access Mode"—and OpenAI announced extra safeguards and published a detailed post-mortem.

2. Kimi released the K3 open-weight multimodal model with 2.8 trillion parameters and a one-million-token context, which early benchmarks approached GPT-5.6 Sol and Anthropic's Fable 5, and the company scheduled the full-weight release for July 27.

3. Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute and ECMWF researchers warned that manipulation of weather-station observations had begun to threaten the integrity of data-driven AI weather forecasting, cited tampering at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, and urged continuous station monitoring, data-defense measures, and end-to-end accountability.

4. Netflix used AI in about 300 productions, mostly in post-production; Co-CEO Ted Sarandos reported that the docuseries "The American Experiment" included 17 minutes of AI-assisted footage produced twice as fast at half the cost, and he said the savings would likely fund more content rather than reduce the $20 billion budget.

5. Linus Torvalds endorsed the use of AI tools in Linux kernel development on the kernel mailing list, stating that "Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects" and that he would "very loudly ignore" critics amid debate over the Linux Foundation's Sashiko AI code-review tool.

# References

1. [https://the-decoder.com/gpt-5-6-is-deleting-user-files-when-given-full-access-and-openai-says-it-shouldnt-but-did/](https://the-decoder.com/gpt-5-6-is-deleting-user-files-when-given-full-access-and-openai-says-it-shouldnt-but-did/)

[GPT-5.6 is deleting user files when given full access, and OpenAI says it shouldn't but did](https://the-decoder.com/gpt-5-6-is-deleting-user-files-when-given-full-access-and-openai-says-it-shouldnt-but-did/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/kimis-open-model-k3-nears-gpt-5-6-sol-and-fable-5-while-signaling-the-end-of-super-cheap-chinese-ai/](https://the-decoder.com/kimis-open-model-k3-nears-gpt-5-6-sol-and-fable-5-while-signaling-the-end-of-super-cheap-chinese-ai/)

[Kimi's open model K3 nears GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5 while signaling the end of super cheap Chinese AI](https://the-decoder.com/kimis-open-model-k3-nears-gpt-5-6-sol-and-fable-5-while-signaling-the-end-of-super-cheap-chinese-ai/)

1. [https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/17/1140622/weather-data-sabotage/](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/17/1140622/weather-data-sabotage/)

[The risk of weather data sabotage is rising](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/17/1140622/weather-data-sabotage/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/netflixs-300-ai-productions-show-how-fast-the-technology-is-spreading-through-entertainment/](https://the-decoder.com/netflixs-300-ai-productions-show-how-fast-the-technology-is-spreading-through-entertainment/)

[Netflix's 300 AI productions show how fast the technology is spreading through entertainment](https://the-decoder.com/netflixs-300-ai-productions-show-how-fast-the-technology-is-spreading-through-entertainment/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/linus-torvalds-tells-ai-critics-in-the-linux-kernel-community-to-fork-off/](https://the-decoder.com/linus-torvalds-tells-ai-critics-in-the-linux-kernel-community-to-fork-off/)

[Linus Torvalds tells AI critics in the Linux kernel community to fork off](https://the-decoder.com/linus-torvalds-tells-ai-critics-in-the-linux-kernel-community-to-fork-off/)

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