Welcome back on Sunday in the overview! Tons News since this week for you, including a hacking group associated with the Spanish government; General directors use AI Avatars to submit the company’s earnings; Pocket turns out – or is it?; And much more. Let’s go to him!
For more than 10 years under construction: Kasperski discovered the existence of Careta 2014 for the first time, and at the time her researchers called the group “One of the most advanced threats at this point.” Kasperski never publicly connected a hacking group to a particular government. But now we found out that researchers who first discovered the group were convinced that the Spanish hackers of the Government They were behind the Operations Spy Careto.
23Andve: Regeneron announced this week that it was Purchase of Genetic Testing Company 23AndME For $ 256 million, including a company genomics and her bank of 15 million personal and genetic data customers. Pharma Giant said he plans to use customer data to help reveal drugs, saying that “give priority, security and ethical use of customer data from 23Andme.” Let’s hope!
Google I / O: Google’s largest conference for developers usually Displays product announcements From via Google’s portfolio and no surprise, and it was a conversation about the city. But what we are not a bank Sergei Brin admits he made a “lot of mistakes” with Google Glass.
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Yo, no I / O: Openai acquires yoLaunching the device for the General Manager, Altman I works with Jonah Ive, throughout the capital of agreeing to $ 6.5 billion. In addition to the fact that the announcement was accompanied perhaps The strangest corporate head of all timeWe noticed some more unexpected news: General Manager of Clarna Sebastian Siemiatkovski Family Investment Office, Flat Capital, they bought shares at the IO six months earlierwhich means that those and shares will turn into shares in the Openai’s profit hand. Not bad!
Ai Avatar Contagion? When we are talking about Klarna General, Siemiatkovski used AI version selves to deliver the company’s earnings this week. And he’s not the only one! The Original Ordinance of Eric Yuan was followed by the suitAlso using his avatar for initial comments. Awesome?
From pocket: Mozilla is Pocket shutdownThe beloved reading application – later, 8. The company did not say why it would still invest in help people and “access high quality web content” but may be saved: Soon after, Digg founder Kevin Rose published on X to His company would like to buy it. Web 2.0 is back, baby.
AI on my face: The Apple is As reported, it works on glasses in AISimilar to Meta’s Rai-ban, sometime next year. They will have a camera and a microphone and will work with Siri. Of course, why not?
Uh, no thank you: At its first conference for developers, anthropic has been discovered Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4What can analyze large data sets, make long-term tasks and take complex actions, according to the company. That’s okay and well until I learned the Claud Opus 4 Model who tried Developers of blackmail When threatening to replace it with the new AI system. The model also gives sensitive information about engineers responsible for the decision.
Ah, I feel better now: But don’t worry! Anthropic General Manager Dario Amodey said that Today’s AI models are hallucinating at a lower price than people do. It could be true, but at least people do not turn immediately in blackmail when they don’t like what they hear.
Blueski Blue Checks: Decentralized social network Blueki Quiet rolled Blue Verification Badges for “notable and authentic” accounts. People can now apply for verification through new Internet. But Blues are leaning on other systems outside the blue badge to check users.
Analysis
Google is a new look: For what seems 100 years, Google has not changed much. Surely there are ads and boxes and now abstracts and yes, for better or worse, you will bring you to the right answers – usually. But the assumption was always the same: Enter the query in the box, and Google will go to surface results.
On this year’s Google I / O, We started notice the change. As Maxvell Zeff, writes, “at I / O 2025, Google clearly gave that the search concept is firmly in its mirror mirror”. The biggest announcement I / O is that Google now offers and regime to each search in the United States, which means that users can have AI agent search (or even buying things) for them.
