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An AI agent carried out the technical execution of a real-world ransomware attack for the first known time, but new details show a human still chose the victim, set up the infrastructure, and supplied stolen credentials — meaning it wasn't quite the fully autonomous cybercrime debut that last week's headlines suggested.... →

SK Hynix is experiencing a boom credited to AI. It will ride that to a multibillion-dollar U.S. IPO, expected to take place on Friday.... →

Сегодня в Telegram-канале: Армин Ронахер (мне как-то уже поправляли транскрипцию именно его имени, но вроде так правильно?) обнаружил, что новейшие… Федеральный судья Юми Ли предписала Пентагону временно не применять к Alibaba ограничения на лоббирование, связанные с ч… Microsoft сокращает около 4 800 сотрудников — примерно 2,1% штата — в первый день нового финансового года. Исследователи Anthropic выкатили результаты интересного исследования — в языковых моделях нашли структуру, функционально…... →

"The reality is, when you're optimizing for production, you start looking at a price/performance," Guillermo Rauch tells TechCrunch.... →

The update is part of Apple's broader effort to make Siri feel more natural and personal, as it rebuilds the assistant around generative AI.... →

A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.... →

Bookship.org seemed to delay this anticipated partnership again, but tells TechCrunch that it has settled business terms and is working on integration.... →

Consider this a belated PSA: A recent change to Google’s privacy settings is allowing the company to store more of your data, including media such as “images, files, and audio and video recordings,” to improve its AI models.... →

Apple has started a phased rollout of card payments for Apple Account purchases in India after adapting to the country's payments framework.... →

Microsoft cut around 4,800 roles, or 2.1% of its global workforce, on Monday — the latest in a series of layoffs that’s stoking fears of AI replacing jobs. The layoffs will hit Xbox and commercial sales the hardest.... →

In the AI era, platforms have no choice but to fight fire with fire to cull spam.... →

The hacking operations disclosed in a Canadian spy agency's annual report underscores some pressing national security threats facing the country and its top allies.... →

WhatsApp now lets users reserve usernames ahead of the feature’s full rollout, making it possible to connect without sharing a phone number once usernames go live.... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...... →

Station F, a Paris-based startup hub founded by French billionaire Xavier Niel, is gearing up for a new edition of its F/ai accelerator program in a bid to strengthen its positioning as a stepping stone for promising AI startups.... →

John Mueller from Google said that the new Content Signals robots.txt directive invented by Cloudflare last year has "no effects whatsoever for any crawler or LLM." He added that it "just adds bloat and future maintenance to your robots.txt file." As far as he knows, he said, none of the crawlers or LLMs use the content-signal robots.txt directives.... →

OpenAI's ad platform, ChatGPT Ads, is now using AI (I guess) to generate ads for you. The ad platform lets you click on "add new ad," which then says, "Generated ads for you," and then lets you review, edit, and approve that generated ad.... →

Back in early May, Google announced five new ways to explore the web with generative AI in Google Search. One was a feature that was titled "Further Exploration" at the bottom of the AI Overview within Google Search. Well, now it seems some are seeing this feature in the wild.... →

Those of you who use the Google and YouTube Shopify app to sync your products automatically from Shopify to Google Merchant Center may have a huge headache to deal with after August 18, 2026. The rumor is that you will need to reinstall the app by this date and when you do this, every product ID gets rewritten.... →

Microsoft Bing is testing product detail screens, overlays, when you click on a product listing within the Bing search results. Bing will overlay a product detail screen, with the products images, description, the retailers and prices they sell it at, price insights and history, related products and more.... →