Welcome again a week in the review! This week’s tons for you, including a piracy group linked to the Spanish government; CEO used by AI Avatars to deliver the company’s profits; Pocket off, or is that?; And much more. Let’s do it!
More than 10 years in manufacturing: Kaspersky revealed for the first time the existence of mask in 2014, and at that time, his researchers called the group “one of the most advanced threats at this time.” Kaspersky never publicly linked the piracy group with a specific government. But now we have learned that the researchers who discovered the group for the first time They were convinced that Spanish government pirates They were behind mask espionage operations.
23 YWE: Regeneon announced this week that it is Buy the GENETIC TEST COMPANY 23Andme For $ 256 million, including the company’s genomic service and its bank of 15 million personal and genetic data from customers. The pharmaceutical giant said it plans to use customer data to help the discovery of medicines, saying that “it will prioritize privacy, safety and ethical use of customer data of 23andme.” Hopefully yes!
Google I/O: The largest developer conference of Google typically Exhibits products ads From the other side of the Google portfolio, and to anyone’s surprise, AI was the city’s talk. But what we did not mean was Sergey Brin admitted that he made “many mistakes” With Google Glass.
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News
Io, not I/O: Operai is acquiring IoThe device startup in which CEO Sam Altman has been working with Jony Ive, in a total capital agreement that values that start of $ 6.5 billion. In addition to the fact that the announcement was accompanied by perhaps the More strange corporate shot of all timeWe saw other unexpected news: Klarna’s CEO, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, the Family Investment Office, Flat Capital, I had bought shares in IO six months beforewhich means that these IO actions will become actions in Openai’s profit arm. Not bad!
Hit avatar ai? Speaking of the Klarna CEO, Siemiatkowski used a version of AI self to deliver the company’s profits this week. And it’s not the only one! Zoom’s CEO, Eric Yuan, did the samealso using your avatar for initial comments. Cool?
Out of pocket: Mozilla is turning pocketThe dear Read-Ite-Later application, July 8. The company did not say why it is closing the pocket, only that it will continue to invest in helping people discover and “access the high quality web content.” But maybe it can be saved: shortly after, the founder of Digg, Kevin Rose, published in X That Your company would love to buy it. Web 2.0 is back, baby.
Ai on my face: Apple is As reported, working in glasses with AISimilar to the finish lines, at some point next year. They will have a camera and a microphone and work with Siri. Of course, why not?
Uh, no thanks: In his first developer conference, Anthrope announced Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4which can analyze large data sets, execute Horizon Long tasks and take complex actions, according to the company. That is fine and good until I learned that the Claude Opus 4 model tried blackmail developers When they threaten to replace it with a new AI system. The model also provides confidential information about the engineers responsible for the decision.
Ah, now I feel better: But don’t worry! The CEO of Anthrope, Dario Amodei, said that Today’s models hallucinate at a lower rate than humans. That could be true, but at least humans do not immediately go to blackmail when they don’t like what they listen.
Blue Bluesky checks: The decentralized social network bluesky Blue Verification Bads in silence for “notable and authentic” accounts. People can now request verification through a new online form. But Bluesky relies on other systems beyond the blue badge to verify users.
Analysis
Google’s new look: So it seems 100 years, Google has not changed much. Of course there are ads and boxes and now summaries of ia that, for better or worse, take it to the right answers, generally. But the premise has always been the same: write your consultation in a superficial box and google of the results.
In the Google I/O this year, We begin to notice a change. As Maxwell Zeff writes: “In I/O 2025, Google made it clear that the search concept is firmly in its rearview mirror.” The biggest I/O announcement was that Google Now offers a mode AI to each search user in the United States, which means that users can have a search for AI agents (or even buy things) for them.