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Google's AI brain drain continues.

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Google's AI divisions are getting reshuffled, the search giant announced on Wednesday.

Microsoft's CoreAI EVP Jay Parikh issued an internal memo directing developers working on AI coding projects to default to OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol model, citing better value from token spend. Microsoft offers cloud customers 11,000+ models from multiple vendors but is consolidating internal usage around OpenAI's flagship.

A macOS ClickFix operation spanning more than 250 front-end domains now fingerprints visitors before deciding whether to show them a malware lure, a change Microsoft Threat Intelligence tracked on infrastructure it had been watching for weeks. The server-side gate hides the malicious page from crawlers and sandboxes while presenting selected Mac users with a fake software download. Microsoft

Fogus reflects on why niche hobby programming communities—OSDev, LangDev, EmuDev, the demoscene, code golfers, chess engine developers—are increasingly hostile to LLM-assisted coding. The core tension: these communities value the hard-won process of mastering a difficult domain as the product itself, not the running code. LLM practitioners who lack deep domain understanding and burst in seeking easy cachet poison the well, while the communities see LLM-generated code as 'robbing the craft' rather than earning respect through years of genuine curiosity and knowledge-sharing.

OpenAI said it disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation that used its generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT to facilitate a wide range of investment, romance, gambling, and law enforcement impersonation schemes. To that end, it banned a coordinated network of ChatGPT accounts likely originating from Southeast Asia and operating from the city of Poipet, a region with extensive

It's as much about grounded characters and well-timed emotional beats as CGI-filled action extravaganzas.

The Kids Online Safety Act, a measure aimed at protecting children on social media, advanced to the Senate floor after it stalled in the last Congress.

Castform and Neon demonstrate that a 4B open-source model, post-trained with reinforcement learning on retrieval tasks, matches the accuracy of GPT-5.6 Sol while costing 100x less per request. The approach uses Neon's Lakebase Search extensions for corpus storage and synthetic data generation, then RL-trains the small model to do agentic multi-hop search instead of relying on expensive frontier model API calls.

Reports of cases began in June, and the national tally is now nearing 23,000.

Reddit is expanding its moderation tools and building stronger abuse prevention systems that it says could eventually reduce communities’ reliance on karma and account-age requirements, making it easier for legitimate newcomers to participate.

The Cosmos EV is now slated for release in the second half of 2027. CEO Silvio Napoli said he's focused on getting the EV right, as well as its nearer-term robotaxi project with Uber and Nuro.

In space, no one can hear you scream when the LLMs hallucinate

PromptArmor disclosed a zero-click data exfiltration vulnerability in Atlassian Rovo AI on May 23rd; after 2+ months with no fix from Atlassian, they went public. The attack uses indirect prompt injection via uploaded files or external data to manipulate Rovo's URL retrieval tool into sending Jira tickets and Confluence docs to an attacker-controlled URL, and it works even when an organization has disabled Rovo's web search setting.

Disney is interested in "price-sensitive" streaming customers.

The applications are in, and the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield team made their decisions!

The V4 Superchargers will show up in the Tesla nav app and have NACS and CCS1 plugs.

A bug in how Apple implements its Private Relay feature, which in theory masks users’ IP addresses from the sites they visit, can reveal users’ real IP addresses.

Deno has released celld, an open-source daemon that runs Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects on your own machines. Each object is its own SQLite database replicated to an S3-compatible bucket, with nodes coordinating solely through that bucket—no control plane, consensus, or membership protocol required. Idle cells hibernate to near-zero resource usage, and the bucket serves as the durable source of truth while nodes remain replaceable.

It's the company's first commercial market after Zoox started offering free rides to the public in parts of Las Vegas and San Francisco less than a year ago.

A critical Langflow flaw allowing RCE on default deployments is being exploited, says the CISA

Company noted for building quantum annealers now also making gate-based hardware.

Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals have launched Discovery Loop, a venture aiming to automate entire experimental loops in scientific and engineering research using frontier AI models and large-scale compute. The initial focus is automating machine learning research and engineering itself, using their own automated ML capabilities as their first customer before expanding to other scientific domains. The long-term ambition targets NAE Grand Challenges like better medicines, clean water, and solar energy.

Demis Hassabis is stepping aside as CEO of Google DeepMind, moving to a Chairman role. The Axios article provides no further substantive detail beyond the leadership change announcement.