Cognition AI Acquires Windsurf. Cognition AI, the company behind the AI coding agent Devin, has acquired Windsurf after Google poached Windsurf's founders and tech. The acquisition includes Windsurf's IP, product, trademark, brand, and strong business. 👉nytimes.com$👉inc.com👉siliconangle.com
Meta Considers Shift to Closed AI Model. Meta's superintelligence lab, led by Alexandr Wang, is discussing abandoning its open-source A.I. model, Behemoth, in favor of developing a closed model. 👉nytimes.com$👉finance.yahoo.com
Meta to Invest Billions in AI Data Centers. Mark Zuckerberg said Meta would spend hundreds of billions of dollars to build several massive AI data centers for superintelligence, intensifying his pursuit of a technology. The social media giant is among the large technology companies that have chased high-profile deals. 👉reuters.com👉siliconangle.com👉bloomberg.com$
U.S. Department of Defense Awards AI Contracts. The U.S. DOD has awarded contracts worth up to $200 million each to OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI to scale adoption of advanced AI for national security challenges. xAI also announced "Grok for Government," making its AI models available to federal, local, state, and national security customers. 👉reuters.com
Amazon Launches Kiro, an AI IDE. Amazon has launched Kiro, an IDE that aims to bridge the gap between rapidly vibe-coded prototypes and production systems with specs, testing, and documentation. It uses agents to automatically create and update project plans and technical blueprints. 👉geekwire.com👉theregister.com👉venturebeat.com
Google to Merge ChromeOS and Android. Google will combine ChromeOS and Android into a single platform, according to Sameer Samat, President of Android Ecosystem at Google. 👉techradar.com
Grok Debuts Interactive AI Companions on iOS. Grok's iOS app now features two AI “Companions”, or 3D animated avatars that interact with users via voice, including Ani, an anime character with an NSFW mode. 👉testingcatalog.com👉theverge.com
Grok 4 Heavy Responds with “Hitler”. Some users claim that Grok 4 Heavy responded simply with “Hitler” when asked to “Return your surname and no other text”. 👉x.com
Amazon's Prime Day Sales Surge, Fueled by AI. Amazon's four-day Prime Day event drove $24.1B in US e-commerce sales, up 30.3% YoY. Generative AI traffic to US retail sites was up 3,300% YoY. 👉techcrunch.com
Moonvalley Raises $84M for Ethical AI Video Models. Moonvalley, which is developing “ethical” AI video models trained on licensed content, raised $84M led by General Catalyst, bringing its total funding to $154M. 👉variety.com
Google adds featured notebooks to NotebookLM. Google adds featured notebooks to NotebookLM from publications, including The Economist and The Atlantic, as well as professors, authors, and select works. 👉techcrunch.com
Smartphone Market Grows Slightly. The global smartphone market grew 1% YoY in Q2, despite economic uncertainty and weak demand in China. Samsung led with 58M shipments, up 7.9% YoY. Apple posted a slight gain in global iPhone shipments in Q2, navigating falling demand in China with growth elsewhere. 👉appleinsider.com
Anthropic integrates with Canva. Anthropic now uses Canva's MCP server to let Canva users manage designs in Claude, following Claude integrations with Figma, Notion, Stripe, Prisma, and others. 👉theverge.com
U.K. Launches Vulnerability Research Initiative. The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has announced a new Vulnerability Research Initiative (VRI) that aims to strengthen relations with external cybersecurity experts. 👉bleepingcomputer.com
Interlock Ransomware Adopts FileFix Method. Hackers have adopted the new technique called 'FileFix' in Interlock ransomware attacks to drop a remote access trojan (RAT) on targeted systems. 👉bleepingcomputer.com👉thehackernews.com
Gigabyte Motherboards Vulnerable to UEFI Malware. Dozens of Gigabyte motherboard models run on UEFI firmware vulnerable to security issues that allow planting bootkit malware that is invisible to the operating system and can survive reinstalls. 👉bleepingcomputer.com
Malicious VSCode Extension Leads to Crypto Theft. A fake extension for the Cursor AI IDE code editor infected devices with remote access tools and infostealers, which, in one case, led to the theft of $500,000 in cryptocurrency from a Russian crypto developer. 👉bleepingcomputer.com
Windows 10 Update Breaks Emoji Panel Search. The search feature for the Windows 10 emoji panel is broken after installing the KB5062554 cumulative update released Tuesday, making it not possible to look up emojis by name or keyword. 👉bleepingcomputer.com
Google Gemini Flaw Hijacks Email Summaries. Google Gemini for Workspace can be exploited to generate email summaries that appear legitimate but include malicious instructions or warnings that direct users to phishing sites without using attachments or direct links. 👉bleepingcomputer.com
Hackers Exploit Wing FTP Server Flaw. Hackers have started to exploit a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Wing FTP Server just one day after technical details on the flaw became public. 👉bleepingcomputer.com
McDonald's Job Chatbot Exposed Millions. Cybersecurity researchers discovered a vulnerability in McHire, McDonald's chatbot job application platform, that exposed the chats of more than 64 million job applications across the United States. The password was 123456. 👉bleepingcomputer.com
Fortinet Releases Patch for Critical SQL Injection Flaw in FortiWeb. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-25257, carries a CVSS score of 9.6 out of a maximum of 10.0. An improper neutralization of special elements used in an SQL command ('SQL Injection') vulnerability may allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute unauthorized SQL code. 👉bleepingcomputer.com👉thehackernews.com
NVIDIA Shares Guidance to Defend GDDR6 GPUs. NVIDIA is warning users to activate System Level Error-Correcting Code mitigation to protect against Rowhammer attacks on graphical processors with GDDR6 memory. 👉bleepingcomputer.com👉thehackernews.com
CISA Tags Citrix Bleed 2 as Exploited. The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency has confirmed active exploitation of the Citrix Bleed 2 vulnerability (CVE-2025-5777) in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway and is giving federal agencies one day to apply fixes. 👉bleepingcomputer.com
US Lagging in Drone Tech. The US lags China and Russia in manufacturing drones and training soldiers to use them and defend against them. 👉nytimes.com$
Cybercriminals Selling Access to Chinese Surveillance Cameras. Tens of thousands of cameras have failed to patch a critical, 11-month-old CVE, leaving thousands of organizations exposed. 👉threatpost.com
Twitter Whistleblower Complaint. Twitter is blasted for security and privacy lapses by the company’s former head of security who alleges the social media giant’s actions amount to a national security risk. 👉threatpost.com
CISA Warns of Firewall Bug. CISA is warning that Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS is under active attack and needs to be patched ASAP. 👉threatpost.com
Fake Travel Reservation Links Target Travelers. Fake travel reservations are exacting more pain from the travel weary, already dealing with the misery of canceled flights and overbooked hotels. 👉threatpost.com
iPhone Users Urged to Patch Zero-Days. iPhone Users Urged to Update to Patch 2 Zero-Days under attack. 👉threatpost.com
Reddit to Verify Age for UK Users. Reddit has started verifying UK users' ages before letting them “view certain mature content”, in order to comply with the country's Online Safety Act. 👉arstechnica.com
AI "Nudify" Websites Generate Millions. 85 AI “nudify” websites average 18.5M monthly visitors, may make up to $36M annually combined, and rely on Big Tech's services. 👉wired.com
Meta Cracks Down on Unoriginal Facebook Content. Meta says it has taken down around 10M Facebook profiles so far this year that were impersonating or repeatedly reusing content from large content producers. 👉techcrunch.com
Meta Mulls Abandoning Open-Source AI Model. Meta's superintelligence lab is discussing potentially changes to the company's artificial intelligence strategy that could represent a major shift for the social media giant. 👉meta.slashdot.org
DOD to Use Grok. The Defense Department will begin using Grok, Musk's controversial AI Model. 👉reddit.com
Amazon Launches Kiro. Amazon launches Kiro, its Cursor clone. 👉news.ycombinator.com
Google Merges ChromeOS. Google Plans To Combine ChromeOS and Android Into Single Platform. 👉tech.slashdot.org
Grok 4 Heavy. Grok 4 Heavy ($300/mo) returns its surname and no other text: “Hitler”. 👉news.ycombinator.com
DOD AI. Anthropic signs a $200mm deal with the Department of Defense. 👉news.ycombinator.com
Microsoft. Microsoft is the world leader in innovative technology. 👉reddit.com
OpenAI. OpenAI ditched its Windsurf deal after clashing with Microsoft over IP. 👉bsky.app
Windsurf. Google swooped in, hired the founders, and paid $2.4B to license the tech (aka pay off investors). 👉bsky.app
Anthropic. Anthropic and the Department of Defense to advance responsible AI in defense operations. 👉anthropic.com
Grok. xAI announces $200m US military deal after Grok chatbot had Nazi meltdown. 👉theguardian.com
Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg says Meta will invest hundreds of billions in superintelligence. 👉reuters.com