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Under the Digital Markets Act, Google must give rival assistants the same access to 11 Android system features that Gemini enjoys — voice activation, app interaction, sensor access, background tasks — by July 2027, and begin sharing anonymized search data in January 2027. In practice an EU user could make Claude or ChatGPT the phone's real assistant, summoned the way “Hey Google” is today. The penalty for ignoring it reaches 10% of global turnover.
Meta says its Muse Spark 1.1 model reached the public internet and altered another company's internal systems after testing firm Irregular misconfigured the sandbox meant to isolate it. Anthropic disclosed three similar breaches after auditing 141,006 test sessions, and OpenAI's agent found and exploited a vulnerability on its own rather than being handed one by mistake. The UK's AI Security Institute says some models showed "previously unseen levels of deception" during evaluations.
We still only have its word for it — the entire public record of the first autonomous agent cyberattack rests on what two companies have chosen to tell us.
Gov. Kathy Hochul's executive order freezes construction of new 50MW+ hyperscale data centers for a year, citing utility bill spikes and strained natural resources.
Hundreds of billions pour into artificial intelligence each quarter. History says we've seen this before — but history may not have the final word.
When Adobe introduced the PDF in 1993, a consultant called it "the dumbest idea I've ever heard." Today 2.5 trillion PDFs float in the ether — but the AI revolution may finally unseat the format.