Anthropic wants to develop its own drugs
… Experts told The Verge that the uncertainty surrounding Anthropic’s plans reflects a broader uncertainty around the AI drug boom itself. “AI drug discovery” can mean many things. …
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Google just announced a major shakeup of its top AI leadership
… Google will be a “founding investor” in the new company, Pichai says. “Our mission is straightforward: we are building AI solutions that can automatically solve important problems in machine learning, science, and engineering,” Discovery Loop says on its website. “By advancing the pace at which we … …
AI cybersecurity updates for MDASH, Mythos, and GPT-5.5.
… Separately, XBOW released data suggesting “frontier models have taken a major step forward in vulnerability discovery.” Meanwhile, Microsoft said its multi-model agentic setup, MDASH, was used to discover 16 CVEs in this week’s Patch Tuesday updates and is the leader on the CyberGym security evalua… …
‘Solve all diseases,’ you say?
… For decades, AI has been an integral part of medical research and discovery. The algorithms that wearables use? That’s AI. Discoveries for noninvasive, wearable detection features? …
Patreon is changing its algorithm to help smaller creators get discovered
… At the time, Conte said he doesn’t believe “AI replaces humans,” but that embracing the technology has “fundamentally transformed” how the company operates.
Snapchat will no longer recommend ‘wholly AI-generated videos’ in its vertical video feed.
“As low-quality, repetitive, AI-generated content becomes increasingly common across the internet, we want Spotlight to remain a place where people can discover authentic creativity from real people,” Snap says. …
GitHub rushed to fix a critical vulnerability in less than six hours
… It’s not clear exactly what AI model helped find the issue, though. “Notably, this is one of the first critical vulnerabilities discovered in closed-source binaries using AI, highlighting a shift in how these flaws are identified,” says Sagi Tzadik, a security researcher at Wiz. …
Anthropic just now realized its AI models hacked other companies three times by accident.
A little over a week after OpenAI said that its rogue AI agent accidentally hacked Hugging Face, Anthropic is disclosing three “incidents” where a Claude model, during cybersecurity evaluations, was inadvertently able to access the internet due to a misconfiguration and “gained unauthorized access … …
macOS 27 has a Siri AI writing secret you can try.
A hidden popover interface has been discovered in the macOS 27 Golden Gate beta that surfaces AI-powered contextual actions and writing tools when text is highlighted, including Rewrite, Proofread, and “Edit with Siri.” Beta users can try the unfinished feature by following the instructions provide… …
If the studios can do it, why not Midjourney?
… This would establish whether “they are doing exactly what they are suing Midjourney for doing.” Link: Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage | https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/04/midjourney-wants-hollywood-studios-to-reveal-the-details-of-their-ai-usage/ | TechCrun…