Welcome back to the week in review! For you, tons of tons from this week, including a hacking group which is associated with the Spanish government; CEOs using AI avatars to earn the company; Pocket shutdown – or is?; More more. Let's do it!
More than 10 years in making: Kaspersky first revealed the existence of Careto in 2014, and at that time, its researchers called the group “one of the most advanced threats at this time”. Kaspersky never connected the hacking group to a specific government. But now we have come to know that researchers who discovered the group for the first time were convinced that Spanish government hackers were behind the espionage operation of Kareto.
23andwe: Regenronon announced this week that it was buying a genetic testing company 23andme for $ 256 million, including the company's genomics service and its bank of 15 million customers' individual and genetic data. Pharma giant said it plans to use customer data to help in search of the drug, saying that it would “prioritize the privacy, security and moral use of customer data of 23andme.” Hope!
Google I/O: Google's largest developer conference typically displays product announcements from Google's portfolio, and for someone's surprise, AI was a matter of the city. But the bank we did not do, Sergei Brin admitted that he made a lot of mistakes with Google Glass.
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IO, no i/o: Openai IO, the device is acquiring startups, working with CEO Sam Altman Johnny Eve, in an all-equity deal that starts the startup in $ 6.5 billion. Apart from the fact that the announcement was probably the most strange corporate headshot till date, we saw some other unexpected news: Clarna CEO Sebastian CEOMITES SIMIT Kovski's family investment office, Flat Capital had bought shares in IO six months ago, which means that those IO shares will be included in the forest for the forest. not bad!
Ovatar fingering? Talking about the CEO of Clarna, Ciaemiatcovski used an AI version of its own to earn the company this week. And that is not the only one! Zoom CEO Eric Yuan followed the suit, using his avatar for the initial comments. Cold?
out of pocket: On July 8, Mosila is shutting down the pocket, which is the favorite Reid-It-Later app. The company did not say why it was shutting down the pocket, only that it will continue to invest to help people find and “reach high quality web content”. But perhaps it can be saved: soon after, Digg's founder Kevin Rose posted on X that his company would like to buy it. Web 2.0 is back, baby.
Aye on my face: Apple is allegedly working on AI-operated glasses, similar to Meta's Ray-Ban, some time next year. They will have a camera and microphone and will work with Siri. sure why not?
Oh, thanks not: At its first developer conference, Anthropic unveiled Cloud Opus 4 and Cloud Sonnet 4, which, according to the company, can analyze large datasets, can perform long-hurizon functions and perform complex action. All this is fine and good until I learned the Cloud Oppus 4 model, when they threaten to replace it with a new AI system, tried to blackmail the developers. The model also gives sensitive information about engineers responsible for the decision.
Ah, now I feel better: But don't worry! Anthropic CEO Dario Amodi said that today's AI models have hallucinations at a lower rate than humans. This may be true, but at least humans do not immediately go to blackmail when they do not like what they hear.
Blussky Blue Check: Decentralized social network Blussky quietly rolled out the blue verification badge for “notable and authentic” accounts. People can now apply for verification through a new online form. But the blue is bent on other systems beyond the blue badge to verify users.
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New look of google: Looks like 100 years, Google has not changed much. Sure advertisements and boxes are now AI summary, which for better or worse, you usually get the correct answer. But the base has always been the same: type your query in a box, and the Google will give the results a surface.
In this year's Google I/O, we started notice of a change. As Maxwell Zaf, writes, “I/o on 2025, Google clarified that the concept of search is firmly in its rearview mirror.” The biggest declaration of I/O was that Google now provides AI mode to each search user in the United States, meaning that users may have AI agent search (or even buying things).
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