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.
Read full story →Google scraped the web to build itself. A court just said others can scrape Google.
A federal judge dismissed Google's lawsuit against SerpApi on July 20, preventing Google from stopping the scraping of its search results. SerpApi collects Google search results and resells them as structured data without permission.
Visa used Mythos to hunt for bugs in its own payment network, then open-sourced the harness that made it possible
Claude Mythos identified exploit chains in Visa's payment infrastructure spanning 200+ countries and 160 currencies by stitching together minor vulnerabilities that traditional penetration testing would have found only late. Visa open-sourced the harness governing the security hunt as a GitHub reference implementation for other security teams to inspect and adapt.
AI writes half our code now. It still fails security tests 44% of the time.
AI models generate compilable code consistently but introduce security vulnerabilities in 44 percent of outputs. Veracode's 2026 report tested over 100 models across four snapshots and found this security failure rate remained unchanged over one year.