Google warns of first known case of AI-assisted hacking

An interactive map tracking data center construction and AI policy, built by Isabelle Reksopuro. When Oregon resident Isabelle Reksopuro heard Google was gobbling up public land to fuel its data centers in her home state, she didn't initially know what to believe. "There's a lot of misinformation about data centers," she said. "Google has denied taking that land." Technically, she explains, The Dalles, a city near the Washington state border, sought to reclaim that land, "and Google is just a big, unnamed power user." The city had in fact asked for ownership of a 150-acre portion of Mount Hood National Forest, claiming it needs access to Mount Hood's watershed to meet municipal needs as its population - 16,010 as of the 2020 census - … Read the full story at The Verge.

The post OpenAI Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over ChatGPT Data Sharing With Meta and Google appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. A class action filed in California federal court accuses OpenAI of disclosing private ChatGPT user data to Meta and Google. The complaint says the company used embedded tracking technology without consumer consent. The lawsuit covers United States residents who entered queries on ChatGPT.com. It argues that OpenAI funneled personal questions and account details to two firms whose advertising networks reach billions of people each day. What The Complaint Alleges The filing centers on tracking technology that Meta and Google supply to website operators for analytics and ad targeting. According to the complaint, OpenAI embedded that code into its ChatGPT site and allowed it to transmit user information automatically. The plaintiffs say the disclosed data included query topics, account identifiers, and email addresses tied to individual users. The case argues that

The April rankings of busiest startup investors were topped by well-established VCs such as Andreessen Horowitz and Khosla Ventures, tech giants like Google and Amazon, and a few names that don’t commonly show up in the lists.

The post Google warns of first known case of AI-assisted hacking appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. For years, the cybersecurity industry has warned that AI would eventually be weaponized by hackers. That theoretical future just became the present. Google’s threat intelligence team has identified what it describes as likely the first documented case of cybercriminals using a large language model to discover and exploit a zero-day vulnerability in the wild. The target: a flaw in a widely used open-source system administration tool that allowed attackers to bypass two-factor authentication. What happened The vulnerability was found in a Python script within a popular open-source login platform. Attackers identified a flaw that, when exploited, could circumvent the 2FA protections that millions of users and organizations rely on as a critical second layer of security. Here’s what makes this case different from every previous cyberattack. The exploit code itself appears to have been gene

Well, hell’s bells: It’s finally happening. After years of misguided rumors and off-base expectations — over a decade’s worth, even! — Google is actually now on the brink of combining Android and ChromeOS into a single superpowered platform for laptops and mobile devices alike. The company officially announced the advent of an entirely new type of product called the Googlebook as part of its pre-Google-I/O “Android Show” event on Tuesday. According to Google, the Googlebook is “a new category of laptops” that brings together Chrome, the Google Play ecosystem of apps, and “a modern OS that’s designed for Intelligence” (a fancy way to say “there’ll be lots of Gemini AI this-and-thats”). At their core, Googlebooks appear to sport an interface that’s somewhere between Android as we know it and ChromeOS — with echoes of the 2010-era large-screen-optimized Android 3.0 Honeycomb era — to create what Google seemingly now sees as the future of the laptop experience. In a lot of ways, Goog

Google used its Android Show: I/O Edition 2026 event to unveil a sweeping suite of AI-powered features under the Gemini Intelligence banner, signalling its most ambitious push yet to embed generative AI throughout the Android experience. The features will initially roll out to Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel devices this summer before reaching other Android […]

Recursive Superintelligence, founded by former Google, Meta and OpenAI researchers, is part of a growing effort to automate the creation of artificial intelligence.

Recursive Superintelligence, founded by former Google, Meta and OpenAI researchers, is part of a growing effort to automate the creation of artificial intelligence.