Welcome again a week in review! A lot of news this week for you, including the Pi -Piracy group associated with the Spanish government; Executive chiefs using AI gods to offer company profits; Close the pocket – or is it? And much more. Let’s get it!
More than 10 years in making: Kaspersky first revealed the presence of Careto in 2014, and at that time, its researchers described the group as “one of the most advanced threats at the present time.” Kaspersky publicly did not link the piracy group with a certain government. But we have now learned that researchers who discovered the group first were convinced that infiltrators from the Spanish government were behind Careto spy.
23andwe: Regeneron announced this week that it buys a genetic test company 23andme for $ 256 million, including the company’s genome service and its 15 million genetic data customer. Pharma Giant said it is planning to use customer data to help detect drugs, saying it “will give priority to privacy, security and moral use of 23ndme customer data.” Let’s hope so!
Google I/O: Google’s largest developer conference displays product ads from all over the Google Portfolio, and to a surprise no one, Amnesty International was talking about the city. But what we did not chase is that Sergey Brain admits that he made “a lot of mistakes” with Google Glass.
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IO, no i/o: Openai gets IO, the start of the device that the CEO of SAM Altman is working with Jony Ive, in a deal from all shares that can start starting at $ 6.5 billion. Besides the fact that the advertisement was accompanied by perhaps The strangest companies in all agesWe discovered some other unexpected news: KLARNA, CEO of Klaarna Siemiatkowski, Flat Capital, drank shares in IO six months ago, which means that IO shares will be converted into shares in the profit Openai. not bad!
AI AIVATAR infection? Talking about KLARNA CEO, Siemiatkowski used a copy of the artificial intelligence himself to provide the company’s profits this week. It is not the only one! Erik Yuan, CEO of Zoom, also followed his symbolism of the initial comments. amazing?
From his pocket: Mozilla closes Pocket, which is a popular reading application, on July 8. The company did not say the reason for the pocket closing, but it will continue to invest in helping people discover high -quality web content.
Amnesty International on my face: According to the Apple company, Apple is working on glasses of artificial intelligence, similar to Meta’s Ray-Bans, at some point next year. They will have a camera and microphone and they will work with Siri. Certainly, why not?
Uh, no, thank you: At the first developer conference, Claude Obus 4 and Claude Sonit 4, which can analyze large data groups, carry out long horizon tasks, and take complex action, according to the company. All this is good and good until I learned the Claude Obus 4 model. Try to blackmail developers when they threaten to replace it with the new artificial intelligence system. The model also gives sensitive information about the engineers responsible for the decision.
Ah, now I feel better: But don’t worry! The CEO of anthropologist Dario Amani said that the artificial intelligence models today are cheering at a rate less than what humans do. This may be true, but humans do not immediately turn to blackmail when they don’t like what they hear.
Blue Blue Blue checks: The decentralized social network has quietly launched blue verification badges for “noticeable and real” accounts. People can now apply for verification through a new online model. But Blues tends to other systems outside the blue badge to check users.
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Google’s new look: What seems to be 100 years, Google has not changed much. Certainly, there are ads and boxes and now Amnesty International summaries that, for the better or worse, take you to the right answers – usually. But the hypothesis was always the same: write your query in a box, and Google will have results.
In Google I/O for this year, we started noticing the change. Maxwell Zeef also wrote, “In I/O 2025, Google explained that the concept of research is firmly in the rear vision mirror.” The largest advertisement for I/O is that Google has now provided AI’s mode for every search user in the United States, which means that users can conduct a search for artificial intelligence agent (or even buy things) to them.
