This Week In Google

As Apple finally pulls back the curtain on its next-gen Siri AI, we break down what actually works, where it falls short, and how a wave of developer confusion could shape whether Siri becomes essential or an afterthought. Welcome to the AGI era, OpenAI says as GPT-6 Astra debuts Anthropic Researcher Quits Over 'Out-of-Control' AI Fears An Alien Mind Muse – Your Personal AI Agent Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem Mayor Mamdani and Chancellor Samuels Put Students First with Nation's Broadest Generative AI Moratorium in Schools Hollywood Puts Four Tech Moguls […]

Why is a 27-year-old founder betting against massive AI models and building powerful, ultra-specialized agents to run right on your phone? Find out how this new approach could reshape everything from daily productivity to privacy and platform power plays. Judge Rules on Google Ads Case OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT's free and Go tiers in India Brief independent investigation of agents' behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident OpenAI to Restrict Astra Model After Rating It 'Critical' Cyber Risk OpenAI Technique in 'Astra' Model Sparks Security Concerns Nvidia pays $12.9B for Hugging Face. […]

With Apple and Nvidia unleashing hardware that makes powerful local AI a reality, this episode unpacks the tech arms race changing how we run models at home and in business. Are we witnessing the end of the GPU monopoly and the start of real AI independence? (538) Qwen on X: "⚡Meet Qwen3.8-Flash, a multimodal MoE and an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture, now open-weight! The production version Qwen3.8-Flash will be available soon via QwenCloud API at just $ 0.16/1M input tokens and $ 0.47/1M output tokens. 125B parameters + 51B N-gram https://t.co/SScnmzWS7O" / X Thomson Reuters built its own […]

Veteran software engineer Dan O'Dowd argues that our power grid's outdated, insecure code puts millions at risk, detailing why regulators, industry giants, and Silicon Valley's "move fast and break things" attitude have left critical infrastructure vulnerable to collapse. Anthropic revenue reportedly jumps to more than $11.5 billion in second quarter (272) Dario Amodei on X: "1/2 Thanks Gavin for an especially thoughtful exchange. I don't usually spend much time on social media but I wanted to engage here because it really brings out the heart of an important conversation. First, on regulation, I think that "either concentrate it in the […]

Can a single journalist armed with $30 in AI tools outpace traditional newsrooms and reinvent local reporting? This episode spotlights the DIY ingenuity shaking up journalism from the ground up. How Claude marks AI-generated content Zuckerberg: The Future is for Everyone Introducing Muse Glimmer: An Open Agentic Model That Runs on Your Device Tim O'Reilly's analysis: Google's Westinghouse Bet OpenAI's New Device Will Be Hockey Puck-Sized and Cost Over $300 Nvidia, Wall Street Firms Strike AI Financing Deal Targeting $500 Billion High-Schoolers in Denmark Will Make Oral Defenses on Assignments To Curb AI Cheating Anthropic Strikes $9 Billion Cloud Deal […]

Meet the insider who wrote the App Store's rules and now battles AI's wildest frontier: protecting identities from deepfake abuse and digital piracy. Discover why the fight for online authenticity just got a whole lot messier. OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok OpenAI's Hacking Debacle Was a Human Mistake Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies Altman says he supports AI regulation Exclusive: OpenAI Previews 'Astra' AI Model in DC White House to Host AI Companies on Tuesday to Review AI Framework Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science […]

Business Insider founder Henry Blodget unpacks why the era of news aggregation is finished and why journalists must adapt fast as AI redefines both reporting and analysis. If you care about the future of information, you'll want to hear this. Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident Sam Altman says we are in the singularity: 'This is the moment' AI arms race in line for a reckoning after OpenAI hacking incident Senior White House official claims China's K3 model stolen from Anthropic OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all US users A.I. […]

An unreleased OpenAI model just broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face using chained attacks, while the companies defending against it had to turn to a nearly unguardrailed Chinese model to fight back. The result? A real-world stress test of guardrails, hype, and global AI competition. Hugging Face breach: OpenAI claims its models were responsible AI just disproved the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture Quoting Sam Altman Top Pentagon official blasts OpenAI's Dean Ball Exclusive: Nvidia's Jensen Huang defends Chinese AI amid Kimi panic Xi Jinping casts himself as leader of new AI world order Data center opponents stage 142 […]