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SentinelOne researchers have identified Gaslight — a Rust-based macOS implant attributed to DPRK-linked actors that embeds 38 fabricated system messages designed to make AI-powered malware analyzers abort or refuse analysis. It steals browser data, Keychain credentials, and terminal history over an AES-GCM encrypted Telegram C2.
Nobel laureate John Jumper, AlphaFold's lead, is heading to Anthropic. Two more key Gemini contributors — Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel — are following. And Noam Shazeer, Google's longest-serving AI veteran, just announced he's joining OpenAI.
MacBook Air jumps from $1,099 to $1,299. The iPad Pro climbs $200. Apple CEO Tim Cook called the memory cost spike 'unavoidable' as HBM demand from AI data centers squeezes supply for consumer products. iPhones, Apple Watch, and AirPods are spared for now.
The Office of the National Cyber Director and the Office of Science and Technology Policy directed OpenAI to limit GPT-5.6 to a small group of vetted partners before any public rollout — a first for named US agencies directly shaping a frontier AI release.
In a Truth Social post, President Trump threatened to impose 100% tariffs on goods from any nation implementing digital services taxes targeting American tech companies — escalating a trade fight that already has the EU, UK, France, Italy, and Spain in his crosshairs, with a July 4 trade-deal deadline looming.
Anthropic told US senators and the White House that operators linked to Alibaba's Qwen AI lab used nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to extract Claude's capabilities through 28.8 million exchanges between April and June 2026, surpassing all previous known Chinese distillation campaigns combined.
The European Commission said it preliminarily views Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as Digital Markets Act gatekeepers, despite neither meeting the law's numerical bars — the first time cloud infrastructure has been targeted under DMA gatekeeper rules.
Adobe has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Topaz Labs, whose Emmy Award-winning AI models for video upscaling, noise removal, and image restoration will integrate across Firefly, Premiere Pro, and Photoshop.
For the first time, a commercial robotic spacecraft will attempt to capture and reboost a government satellite, keeping a 22-year-old astronomy mission alive.
Three weeks after Cisco released patches for a critical SSRF flaw in Unified Communications Manager, attackers are now deploying webshells on enterprise telephony systems via Tor-based automated sweeps.
Researchers at Novee Security found a systemic CI/CD misconfiguration that lets anyone with a free GitHub account inject malicious code into packages published by major tech firms.
Google's parent company becomes the fifth major tech firm in the 30-stock blue-chip index, with S&P Global citing Alphabet's AI, cloud, and advertising exposure as key drivers.