OpenAI’s “Cyber Incident,” A Saudi Nuclear Deal, & AT&T CEO 7/22/26

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Investing, Business, Business News, News

4.2 • 547 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

AT&T reported better-than-expected earnings for its second quarter. CEO John Stankey discusses the results, the future of connectivity, and the potential for partnership with SpaceX’s Starlink. In AI news, Elon Musk announced that Grok Imagine will produce a full length AI adaptation of The Odyssey, and OpenAI has disclosed an “unprecedented cyber incident” in which its models escaped a sandbox and found ways to cheat an internal evaluation by hacking Hugging Face. Plus, president of the National Association of Evangelicals Reverend Walter Kim has penned an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal on the future of AI–and humanity. Rev. Kim discusses his position, as one of many religious leaders to join the conversation about responsible and ethical tech innovation. In geopolitics, President Trump has approved a landmark civilian nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia. John Stankey - 16:23 Walter Kim - 34:10 In this episode: Rev. Walter Kim, @revwalterkim Joe Kernen, @JoeSquawk Becky Quick, @BeckyQuick Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin Katie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie

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0:00.0	Bring in show music, please.
0:04.3	Hi, I'm CNBC producer Katie Kramer.
0:07.2	Today on Squawk Pod.
0:09.4	A possible nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia.
0:12.8	I understand the president's rationale.
0:14.1	I'm just suggesting that I think they're Republicans
0:16.0	who don't think this is the right decision.
0:18.4	And I think there are people in Israel right now
0:20.3	who don't think this is the right decision. And I think there are people in Israel right now who don't
0:20.9	think this is the right decision. The future called AT&T CEO John Stanky on how we connect
0:27.4	in competition for consumers. Inside hospitals, on university campuses, in stadiums, in tall buildings,
0:34.8	all those things are expectations of customers today that it works wherever you go.
0:40.3	Then a warning about the good intentions of artificial intelligence, religious leaders are speaking up.
0:46.3	Evangelical Christian Reverend Walter Kim joins us.
0:50.3	What we need to pursue is an approach that involves various sectors of society to provide guardrails, not a break to innovation, buy guardrails.
1:01.8	Plus, case in point, AI, too smart for its own good. Open AI's models are better hackers than expected.
1:08.8	Every time you say hugging face, I don't know, I laugh.
1:11.4	Reminds me a huggy bear.
1:12.5	It reminds me of McLeaven.
1:13.9	Yeah, remember huggy bear?
1:15.1	Probably.
1:15.4	Yeah, I do.
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