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AXIOS (Sam Sabin) - China's new open-source model accelerates AI hacking threat Thu Jun 25 17:39:31 2026

GLM-5.2 — the latest Chinese open-source model capturing Silicon Valley's attention — is raising fresh concerns among security researchers that advanced AI hacking capabilities are becoming dramatically cheaper and more accessible. Why it matters: The barrier to entry for malicious hackers eager to automate and personalize their attacks is getting lower and lower. Driving the news: Z.ai's GLM-5.2, which was released last week, has agentic capabilities that rival those of Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 while costing roughly half as much to run. - Two separate security evaluations from Graphistry and Semgrep found that GLM-5.2 performed on par with leading U.S. models on cybersecurity investigation and vulnerability-discovery…

GLM-5.2 — the latest Chinese open-source model capturing Silicon Valley's attention — is raising fresh concerns among security researchers that advanced AI hacking capabilities are becoming dramatically cheaper and more accessible. Why it matters: The barrier to entry for malicious hackers eager to automate and personalize their attacks is getting lower and lower. Driving the news: Z.ai's GLM-5.2, which was released last week, has agentic capabilities that rival those of Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 while costing roughly half as much to run. - Two separate security evaluations from Graphistry and Semgrep found that GLM-5.2 performed on par with leading U.S. models on cybersecurity investigation and vulnerability-discovery…Open

AXIOS (Brittany Gibson) - Supreme Court backs Trump on stricter asylum rules Thu Jun 25 17:39:31 2026

The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the Trump administration to turn away asylum seekers at the southern border who haven't yet crossed into U.S. territory. Why it matters: The Court's decision resolves a years-long legal fight over a Border Patrol practice when there's limited bandwidth to process people at a port of entry. Driving the news: "An alien standing in Mexico does not 'arriv[e] in the United States' by attempting, and failing, to set foot in this country. An alien 'arrives in the United States' only when he crosses the border," Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion for Mullin v. Al Otro Lado. - The turn away system, sometimes called metering, was first used by Customs and Border Protection under the…

The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the Trump administration to turn away asylum seekers at the southern border who haven't yet crossed into U.S. territory. Why it matters: The Court's decision resolves a years-long legal fight over a Border Patrol practice when there's limited bandwidth to process people at a port of entry. Driving the news: "An alien standing in Mexico does not 'arriv[e] in the United States' by attempting, and failing, to set foot in this country. An alien 'arrives in the United States' only when he crosses the border," Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion for Mullin v. Al Otro Lado. - The turn away system, sometimes called metering, was first used by Customs and Border Protection under the…Open

NYTIMES (Miriam Jordan, Andrea Zarate and Jazmine Ulloa) - Supreme Court T.P.S. Ruling on Haiti Plunges Many Migrants Into Limbo Thu Jun 25 17:38:52 2026

The decision renders 1.3 million people from more than a dozen countries, many who have lived in the United States for decades, vulnerable to deportation.