Pony Ma Wants Half of Tencent Sailing Into AI, and the Company Says It Is Not a Layoff
Tencent founder Pony Ma reportedly told staff he would redeploy half of them toward AI-native work, and social media heard mass layoffs. Tencent's PR director says the 50 percent layoff claim is complete
Researchers Say Kazakhstan-Linked Spies Let an AI Agent Haul Off 2,000 Tajik Government Files
CloudSEK says the Silent Lynx espionage group used the open-source Hermes AI agent to collect more than 2,000 Tajik national security documents, then got caught after leaving its own server wide open.
Radical Numerics Says Its Offline AI Can Flag AI-Designed Pathogens From a Laptop
Radical Numerics says its new Omnii Defense model can score natural and AI-engineered pathogen risks offline on a laptop. The figures are the company's own, and only vetted testers can use it.
Google Parks Gemini Live Inside Apple CarPlay, but It Will Not Touch Your Music or AC
Google has started rolling out the standalone Gemini app to Apple CarPlay, letting iPhone drivers hold hands-free Gemini Live chats about email, calendars and meeting prep. It cannot control music, clima
Google Says Its New Gemini Model Scores 1,000 Questions at Once Without Writing a Word
Google launched the Gemini Decisions API, a model that returns probabilities instead of text at 10 cents per million input tokens. It arrives late to a category startup Jev opened, and developer Simon Wi
AWS Says AI Agents Wrote Its Free New Cloud Emulator and No Human Reviewed the Code
AWS released a free offline emulator covering more than 200 of its services, and the engineer behind it says autonomous agents wrote every line with no human review. It is a bold claim, nobody outside AW
