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Android gets AI agents that book trips, fill forms, and clean up your texts

With Gemini Intelligence, Google is introducing new AI features for Android that automate multi-step tasks, summarize web content, fill out forms, and turn spoken thoughts into polished text messages.
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AI turns patches into working exploits in 30 minutes, and the 90-day disclosure window is the casualty

Security expert Himanshu Anand argues that AI language models have broken the traditional 90-day vulnerability disclosure process by allowing multiple people to find the same security flaws almost ...
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Generative AI turns identity theft into an industrial-scale operation

Generative AI and autonomous agents are accelerating identity theft in the US. According to credit bureau Experian, 40 percent of the data breaches investigated last year involved AI. Fraudsters use ...
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AI agents can now hack computers and copy themselves, and they're getting better fast

Security research lab Palisade Research demonstrates that AI agents can break into remote computers and replicate themselves. In one year, the success rate jumped from 6 to 81 percent. A public ...
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Jeff Bezos nears $10 billion funding round for AI lab "Project Prometheus"

Jeff Bezos is about to close a $10 billion funding round for his AI lab codenamed "Project Prometheus," the Financial Times reports. The company is valued at $38 billion. JPMorgan and BlackRock are ...
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Google launches generative UI standard for AI agents

Google has released A2UI version 0.9, a framework-agnostic standard for generative user interfaces. The protocol lets AI agents build UI elements on the fly, pulling from an application's existing ...
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Alibaba's open model Qwen3.6 leads Google's Gemma 4 across agentic coding benchmarks

Alibaba has released Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, a new open AI model. The mixture-of-experts model activates just three of its 35 billion parameters at a time, cutting compute costs without meaningfully hurting ...
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Nvidia wants to scale robot simulation training with Lyra 2.0

Nvidia researchers present Lyra 2.0, a system that generates coherent 3D environments with an extension of up to 90 meters from a single photo. The system stores already generated 3D geometry as ...
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OpenAI turns Codex into an always-on coding agent that watches your screen

OpenAI has significantly expanded its developer tool Codex with a new "background computer use" feature that enables the AI to see, click, and type on the screen directly. Codex can now schedule ...
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OpenAI halves its Pro price to $100 for heavy Codex users, undercuts Anthropic and Google

OpenAI is reshuffling its subscription tiers with a new $100-per-month Pro plan designed for people who rely heavily on its Codex programming tool. The new Pro tier costs half of what the old $200 ...
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Claude Cowork expands to all paid plans on macOS and Windows with new org controls

Claude Cowork is now available on all paid plans for macOS and Windows. Anthropic is also rolling out organizational controls: role-based access, per-team budget limits, usage analytics, and ...
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From GPT-2 to Claude Mythos: The return of AI models deemed 'too dangerous to release'

Seven years ago, OpenAI declared its language model GPT-2 "too dangerous to release." The industry rolled its eyes. Now Anthropic is repeating the move with Claude Mythos Preview, but this time ...