#12 (EN): IT Leadership News July 2026

Topics in this news episode:


• The autonomous AI attack on Hugging Face — what really happened


• Why OpenAI’s cyber test environment became a problem


• Zero-day marketplaces explained in plain language


• The asymmetry between attacking and defending AI systems


• Why locally or sovereignly operated models matter for cyber
defense


• Anthropic: Fable 5, Opus 5 and the evolving model landscape


• Soofi S: an open German AI model for industrial applications


• IPCEI-CIS and Europe’s path toward digital sovereignty


• OVH Cloud, StackIT and sovereign cloud as a real architecture
decision


• AI-Native SAFe, AI governance and the risk of putting
frameworks before practice