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👀 Tim Cook says Apple is ‘open to’ AI acquisition
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- CEO Tim Cook confirmed Apple is "open" to mergers and acquisitions, signaling a significant increase in investment as the company embeds artificial intelligence across its devices and platforms.
- Reports indicate Apple discussed acquiring the AI search startup Perplexity and might enlist OpenAI or Anthropic to help power its new large language model version of Siri, called "LLM Siri."
- The potential acquisitions come as Apple is seen as lagging on its Apple Intelligence efforts, having delayed its Siri revamp for not being “reliable” while also losing engineers to Meta.
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🧠 Google launches Gemini Deep Think
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- Google released a Deep Think function for its Gemini model, giving it extra "inference time" to solve complex problems by generating and evaluating multiple ideas using a "parallel thinking" technique.
- This public version of the AI that won gold at the Math Olympiad now reaches bronze-level performance on the same benchmark and beats rivals on coding tasks like LiveCodeBench V6.
- A safety review found the model crossed an "early warning alert threshold" for CBRN risks, potentially providing enough knowledge to help low-resourced actors develop weapons of mass destruction.
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🔎 Reddit wants to become a search engine
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- Reddit's CEO announced the company is building its own search engine, concentrating resources to highlight the platform's "human voices" over the AI-generated summaries found on other major platforms.
- A central component of this new strategy is the "Reddit Answers" feature, which has quickly grown to 6 million weekly active users from the 1 million it had last quarter.
- The platform's core search product already attracts over 70 million people each week, with plans to expand "Reddit Answers" globally and integrate it more deeply into the main experience.
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❌ OpenAI stops ChatGPT chats from showing on Google
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- OpenAI abruptly discontinued a system that let users make their ChatGPT conversations searchable after thousands of private chats about health questions and resumes appeared in Google search results.
- The company reversed its "short-lived experiment" within hours of criticism because a simple Google query exposed strangers’ intimate discussions about renovations, personal health, and sensitive professional resume rewrites.
- While the sharing function was opt-in, the AI developer admitted its guardrails were insufficient, revealing a pattern where similar products have struggled to implement effective privacy controls.
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⚖️ Google loses its app store appeal to Epic Games
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- The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied Google’s appeal, upholding a 2023 verdict that found its Play Store and billing practices created an illegal monopoly over Android.
- Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney says this ruling means the Epic Games Store can be distributed on the Google Play Store, so users will no longer need to sideload it.
- Google will appeal the decision again by taking its case to the US Supreme Court, where the company will continue to challenge the verdict that its practices were anticompetitive.
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🕵️ Microsoft catches Russian hackers targeting foreign embassies
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- Microsoft confirmed Russian-state hackers called Secret Blizzard are using adversary-in-the-middle attacks at the ISP level to position themselves between foreign embassies and the websites they try to connect to.
- The hackers use their position, sometimes with a captive portal, to redirect embassy personnel to malicious websites in order to install custom malware known as ApolloShadow onto their computer systems.
- Once installed, the ApolloShadow malware adds a new TLS root certificate to the infected system, which lets the attackers cryptographically impersonate trusted websites visited by embassy personnel from that machine.
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