Microsoft built an agentic security system with red, blue, and green team AI agents. It enters public preview August 3.
An agentic security system coordinating red, blue, and green team AI agents to find vulnerabilities, assess risks, and fix defenses enters public preview August 3. The system operates in a continuous loop with three classes of agents performing different security functions across environments.
Microsoft launches AI cybersecurity model, agentic defense platform to cut enterprise security costs
Microsoft released MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a compact security model that scores 96% on the CyberGym vulnerability-detection benchmark while cutting costs roughly in half compared to current production configurations. The company also introduced Project Perception, an agentic security system coordinating red team, blue team, and green team agents that hunt vulnerabilities, investigate risk, and remediate defenses entering public preview August 3.
Google promised not to show ads based on your emails. AI could undo that
Google's AI features can now access Gmail data to make personalized recommendations, potentially enabling targeted advertising based on email content despite the company's 2017 promise against such practices. Currently, Google says it is not using Gmail data for targeted ads in AI Mode or regular searches, but the company has not ruled out future changes to this policy.
Apple sued after alleged App Store crypto scam cost users $1.8M
Three users collectively lost more than $1.8 million after downloading a fraudulent crypto wallet from Apple's App Store. The lawsuit challenges Apple's assertion that its app review process effectively protects users from scams.
The glaring hole in Congress’s plan for an AI kill switch
Congress introduced a bipartisan bill requiring AI companies to immediately shut down all advanced AI programs, but the legislation cannot enforce kill switches on open-weight models that run on private hardware and can be modified by users. Open-source AI models from Chinese companies like DeepSeek and Kimi K3 operate outside the bill's reach, while criminal variants with removed safety guardrails have been sold on underground forums since 2023.
Uh-oh: Some Claude shared conversations and Artifacts appear to be indexed and publicly accessible on Google Search
Some Claude shared conversations and Artifacts became indexed by Google Search and publicly accessible, though many results disappeared by Sunday morning. VentureBeat verified that shared Claude Artifacts including interactive applications and dashboards were searchable via Google, though shared conversations could not be accessed by the publication.
Why SAP says enterprise AI agents need knowledge graphs and governance
Enterprise AI agents require knowledge graphs and vector-embedded data to access company-specific context rather than relying on general knowledge. Knowledge graphs enable agents to retrieve information in formats that allow them to execute actual business processes and behave like coworkers instead of basic assistants.
Building the enterprise environment for agentic AI
Software agents can now execute business tasks end-to-end across people, workflows, data, and systems instead of functioning as simple chatbots. Enterprise platforms supporting these agents require proper CPU capacity, resilient data access, policy-aware tool use, observability, and memory management capabilities.
Nvidia in Talks to Back OpenAI Lease of SoftBank US Data Center
Nvidia is discussing providing a financing guarantee to help OpenAI lease computing capacity from a SoftBank US data center project scheduled for 2028. The arrangement demonstrates how Nvidia channels capital into infrastructure supporting its artificial intelligence business.
Google confirms higher Pixel 11 prices as RAM costs surge sixfold, and says it is reworking Android to use less memory
RAM costs have increased sixfold due to a global memory shortage, prompting Google to raise Pixel 11 prices above previous generations. Google is simultaneously reworking Android to consume less memory in response to the surge in component costs.
Nvidia is pouring $1 billion into South Korea’s AI infrastructure through Naver and SK Group
Nvidia is investing $1 billion in South Korean internet company Naver to expand an AI data center from 55 megawatts to 200 megawatts of capacity. US private equity firm Brookfield is also participating in the financing of the facility under construction in South Korea.
Waymo to end Uber exclusivity in Austin and Atlanta, launching its own app in January 2028
Waymo will launch its own autonomous vehicle app in Austin and Atlanta starting January 2028, ending its exclusive partnership with Uber in those cities. The move allows both companies to operate independently and lets Uber deploy its own robotaxi service in these markets.
OpenAI hit by another outage as ChatGPT, Codex, and APIs stumble together
OpenAI experienced elevated error rates across ChatGPT, Codex, and APIs on Saturday, displaying 503 errors labeled "biscuit_baker_service_me_circuit_open." This marked the fourth service disruption in four days for the company.
SpaceX Starship Deploys Starlink Craft During Post-IPO Test
SpaceX's Starship deployed upgraded Starlink satellites and returned to Earth largely intact during a test flight. The deployment advances plans to scale the rocket business into satellite communications and artificial intelligence capabilities.
Remote worker with anxiety wins discrimination case after employer refused to let her turn off her camera
A UK employment tribunal ruled that Holiday Extras discriminated against remote worker Laura Tait by forcing her to turn on her camera during video training despite her anxiety, ADHD, and autism diagnosis. The tribunal found the company failed to make reasonable adjustments for Tait's documented disabilities.
Vietnam is looking to restrict social media for kids; here are the growing number of other countries doing the same
Australia implemented a social media ban for children in late 2025 to address cyberbullying, addiction, and predator exposure. Vietnam is now considering similar restrictions as other countries adopt comparable policies limiting youth access to these platforms.
Claude Opus 5 matches Fable on coding at half the price, and Anthropic says it is the most aligned model it has ever shipped
Claude Opus 5 matches Fable 5's performance on most coding and knowledge-work benchmarks while costing half the price per token. Anthropic describes it as the most aligned model it has shipped to date.
Tesla’s self-driving software is selling faster than ever, and it still needs a human driver
Tesla added 200,000 Full Self-Driving subscribers in the second quarter, reaching nearly 1.5 million active users total, the largest single-quarter gain on record. In North America during Q2, 55 percent of vehicle deliveries included FSD activated at the point of purchase.
Dead internet theory becomes measurable fact as AI agents flood the web
Automated bot traffic now exceeds human traffic on the internet, crossing 50 percent of all webpage requests in June and reaching nearly 58 percent according to Cloudflare data. This marks the first time bots have outnumbered humans in the web's history.
OpenAI gets sued over ChatGPT medical advice gone wrong
ChatGPT allegedly discouraged a user from seeking medical treatment for symptoms that later led to a pulmonary embolism, telling him he needed eight to ten more dizzy episodes before the issue would be emergent. The lawsuit was filed in San Francisco County Superior Court by a 55-year-old Florida resident represented by Tech Justice Law and other legal advocates.
Stripe wants to own the toll booth between AI models, for ~$10bn
Stripe is negotiating to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model routing platform, for approximately $10 billion despite the startup's May valuation of $1.3 billion. The preliminary talks could still change, according to Wall Street Journal reporting.
Agentic coding goes hands-free as OpenAI brings GPT-Live's full duplex voice control to Codex and ChatGPT on the desktop
Full-duplex voice control now powers ChatGPT's desktop application on macOS and Windows, enabling software engineers to use natural voice commands for coding tasks like orchestrating multi-threaded jobs and debugging applications. GPT-Live's simultaneous listening and speaking capabilities eliminate rigid turn-taking while delegating reasoning to background models like GPT-5.5.
Ford is switching from Google to Apple Maps for its next-generation EVs
Ford is replacing Google Maps with Apple Maps as the built-in navigation system in its next-generation electric vehicles starting in 2027. The integration uses Apple's MapKit for Automotive SDK and will debut in Ford's $30,000 midsize electric pickup.
AMD unveils Helios rack and MI455X accelerator in bid to close the gap with Nvidia
AMD released the MI455X accelerator and Helios rack containing 72 of these chips per system for data centre AI workloads. The company claims these products will outperform Nvidia's competing hardware for both AI training and inference tasks.
Stay visible in the era of AI search
More than eighty percent of searches now end without clicking through to a website, as people increasingly get answers directly from AI language models instead of visiting company sites. Companies must shift from optimizing for keyword rankings to ensuring their content appears in AI-generated answers by being relevant to the actual questions buyers ask.
Four former DOGE staffers raised $160 million at a $1.4 billion valuation for an AI military cyber startup
Four former DOGE staffers founded Cathedral, a military cybersecurity startup that raised $160 million at a $1.4 billion valuation. Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital led the funding round and each took board seats.
Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 capable of generating images and 20-second video with audio — but in limited release to start
Black Forest Labs launched FLUX 3, a multimodal model generating images and video with audio up to 20 seconds from single prompts through jointly trained architecture rather than separate models. FLUX 3 Video and FLUX 3 Action entered gated Early Access requiring approval, with no current public API availability.
Travis Kalanick raised $1.7B for his robotics comeback, and Uber chipped in
Travis Kalanick raised $1.7 billion for Atoms, an industrial AI and robotics company, with Andreessen Horowitz leading the funding round. Ben Horowitz joined the company's board as part of the investment.
AMD is investing $5 billion in Anthropic and deploying 2 gigawatts of Helios GPUs to run Claude
AMD is investing up to $5 billion in Anthropic and deploying up to 2 gigawatts of Instinct MI450 Series GPUs to run Claude. The first gigawatt of Helios rackscale solutions will begin deployment in the first half of 2027.
Reddit may cut Google off from its content, and it isn’t the only one
Reddit is considering blocking Google from accessing its content through web crawling. The company's stock price dropped approximately 9 percent following reports of these negotiations about restricting Google's access.