Google sues Chinese cybercrime

Wall Street Week | SpaceX Goes Public, Google’s AI Bet, World Cup Price Backlash

This week, the arrival of mega-IPOs is testing capital markets as investor appetite grows larger than supply. The federal government is making a direct investment in private technology companies, betting on quantum computing. Plus, Google is making its most radical change to search in twenty years by incorporating AI. Later, the most lucrative World Cup in history is testing how much fans are willing and able to pay for football. (Source: Bloomberg)

Class V Group Founder Analyzes Unique Features of SpaceX's Record $75B IPO

Lise Buyer, Founder at Class V Group and one of the architects of Google's IPO, provided insights on SpaceX's recent record-breaking $75 billion IPO. She highlighted the unusual aspects of the offering, including its fixed pricing rather than a price range, and the staggered lockup release structure. She speaks to Romaine Bostick & Katie Greifeld on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)

Google researchers introduce 'faithful uncertainty,' allowing LLMs to offer best guesses instead of hallucinations

Large language models continue to struggle with hallucinations, presenting a major roadblock for real-world enterprise applications. Reducing these errors is a messy business, forcing model developers to navigate a strict tradeoff where eliminating factual errors often suppresses valid answers. In a new paper , Google researchers introduce the concept of "faithful uncertainty," a metacognitive technique that aligns a model's response with its internal confidence. This alignment allows the model

Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to scam ‘hundreds of thousands of victims’ sued by Google

The tech giant said a group called "Outsider Enterprise" used AI to scam hundreds of thousands of victims, sending 2.5 million text messages over a span of two weeks.

Google Sues Chinese Cybercrime Operation That Used Gemini AI To Send Scam Texts

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Google is suing to dismantle the infrastructure behind an alleged massive AI-powered cybercrime operation. On Friday, the tech giant announced a lawsuit against an alleged Chinese cybercrime network called Outsider Enterprise, which Google says uses AI in its campaigns to send scam text messages impersonating Google and other brands to steal passwords and credit card numbers. Outsider Enterprise has financially scammed "hundreds of thousands

Google sues Chinese cybercrime ring that used Gemini to build phishing sites and send 2.5 million scam texts

Google filed a lawsuit on Friday to dismantle the infrastructure behind a Chinese cybercrime operation called Outsider Enterprise. The group used AI, including Google’s own Gemini, to generate phishing websites and send scam text messages impersonating Google and other brands. It sent 2.5 million fraudulent texts to Android users in a two-week period. The operation […] This story continues at The Next Web

Google sues Chinese cybercrime network that used Gemini to automate scams

The fraudsters allegedly targeted hundreds of thousands of people with Gemini-coded scams sites.

A spy in your pocket? How the UK’s proposed on-device nude image blocking could work in reality

Apple and Google have until September to either activate built-in features or implement new scanning tools. Privacy advocates are raising the alarm, but the government is ready to "change the law" if needs be.

SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI’s hot IPO summer

The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is taking over: MANGOS — Meta (or Microsoft, depending on who you ask), Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, and SpaceX. Half of that bunch is heading to public markets in the same window, and it’s a stress test for investors, for valuations, and for […]

It’s hot IPO summer, and the MANGOS are ripe

The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is taking over: MANGOS — Meta (or Microsoft, depending on who you ask), Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, and SpaceX. Half of that bunch is heading to public markets in the same window, and it’s a stress test for investors, for valuations, and for […]

Crusoe claimed it “paused” a plan to build a Wyoming data center after it failed to win customers including Google

The company was pressured to pause development by Google

Amazon reveals exactly how much water its data centers used last year — and claims its 2.5 billion gallons puts it below the industry average

Amazon says it used far less water than Google at its data centers as it turns to air cooling and recycled water consumption.

Gemini can now adjust your picture settings on Google TV

Gemini can - at least on some TCL models - adjust your TV's picture settings.

‘Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass': Google director jumps ship over company’s new AI contracts with DoD, Pentagon

Google director of Android platform security ditches company over contracts with Defense Department

Google sues Chinese scammers using Gemini AI for fraud

Google sued a Chinese cybercrime network for using its Gemini AI in a 'massive' scam operation.

Google Sues to Stop Chinese Cybercrime Group from Using Its A.I.

In a lawsuit, the tech giant accused the group of using Google’s Gemini system to create hundreds of fake corporate and government websites.

Scammers Used Gemini AI to Help Build Spam Messages, Google Says

Alphabet Inc.’s Google filed a lawsuit against a suspected Chinese cybercrime operation, alleging that the group used artificial intelligence to send more than 2 million text messages with fraudulent links attempting to scam cellphone users.

Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Executives Plan to Attend G7 Summit

Artificial intelligence executives from Anthropic PBC, OpenAI and Alphabet Inc.’s Google are slated to attend the Group of Seven summit, a gathering of world leaders that gets underway next week in France.

Siri won’t be your AI girlfriend

Our early testing has already shown that Siri AI knows when to shut up, and that's very much by design. In an interview with Mostly Human spotted by MacRumors, Craig Federighi said Apple's new Siri won't act all sycophantic like chatbots made by OpenAI, Google, and others. "As you may know, if you use many […]

How scammers use "scraped New York Times content" to trick security scanners — and exploit "free" Google Cloud links to flood your inbox

Researchers uncovered a global phishing network using Google Cloud redirects and copied news content across thousands of coordinated servers.

Oracle warns of security bug that hackers abused to breach 100+ companies

The tech giant warned of a security flaw that a cybercrime gang said it's exploiting as part of a mass-hacking campaign. Google said it notified more than 100 organizations that had potentially vulnerable servers.

Euro-Office 1.0 Arrives To Open-Source Infighting: 'Compatibility Is Not Sovereignty'

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: If digital sovereignty is important to you, and it certainly is in the European Union (EU), then you'll be pleased to know that EuroOffice, a new open-source browser-based office suite alternative to Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, has officially reached its first stable release. A coalition of EU-based companies, including Nextcloud, Ionos, and other Euro-Stack participants, is positioning Euro-Office as a cornerstone of European digital sover

Google DeepMind’s TacticAI can predict football plays 8 seconds before they happen. Palmeiras is the first to use it.

Google DeepMind built an AI that can predict football plays before they happen. TacticAI uses geometric deep learning to model player movement, forecast dynamics up to eight seconds into the future, and recommend tactical adjustments, all from broadcast-style visual data. Brazilian club Palmeiras is the first to use it for live open-play analysis. The system […] This story continues at The Next Web

Google's DiffusionGemma generates 256 tokens in parallel and self-corrects as it goes

GenAI image generators like Stable Diffusion do not draw a picture pixel by pixel from left to right. They start with noise and iteratively refine the entire image in parallel until it converges, in a process known as diffusion. For years, applying that same principle to text generation had remained out of reach at scale. Standard language models work like a typewriter: one token at a time, left to right, with no ability to revise a committed output. That pattern works in the cloud, where batch

Crusoe Pushed Aside at Wyoming AI Project After Google Concerns

Data center upstart Crusoe is being pushed aside at an artificial intelligence campus it was developing in Wyoming after failing to lock in customers including Alphabet Inc.’s Google, according to people familiar with the situation.

Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps

The new open-source project could serve as the basis for a future of apps with features as complex as Slack, Discord, or Google Docs—but with added protection against surveillance.

Google DeepMind is worried about what happens when millions of agents start to interact

Google DeepMind is funding research into the potential dangers of situations where millions of different AI agents interact with each other online. According to Rohin Shah, who directs the company’s AGI safety and alignment research, the mass-market arrival of agents that can carry out tasks without human oversight and follow instructions given to them by other…

Google is funding 300,000 electricians and welders, because the AI boom is running out of them

The AI boom has a problem no amount of capital can solve on its own: there are not enough electricians, welders, and pipefitters to build it. Google’s answer is to pay to train them. Its philanthropic arm, Google.org, said it is committing $50M to prepare more than 300,000 skilled-trade workers across over 20 US states, […] This story continues at The Next Web

Craig Federighi Details Apple’s Collaboration With Google for Siri AI — Live, on Stage

Chance Miller, at 9to5Mac on Monday: Apple’s Siri team, led by Craig Federighi, held a post-WWDC keynote tech talk with members of the press this afternoon to talk through iOS 27 and the new Siri AI. During the talk, Federighi shared more details about Apple’s collaboration with Google. Federighi was joined by Amar Subramanya (vice president of AI), Mike Rockwell (Siri lead), and Sebastien Marineau-Mes (software VP). On the Google collaboration, Federighi explained: Of course, we don’t have the

Experts warn hackers are hiding malware inside Google's own ad systems — here's what we know

Hackers routed a multi-stage malware campaign through Google's ad infrastructure, using dynamic branding and in-memory execution to evade detection entirely.

Apple, Google add support for Thread 1.4

Apple and Google are updating their smart home streaming devices to Thread 1.4. As first spotted by Matter Alpha and 9to5 Google, the latest spec has arrived on compatible Apple TVs in the tvOS 27 developer beta and the Google TV Streamer through a software update. This lays the groundwork for these devices, which serve […]

Kalshi adds required employment verification for some prediction market bets

The CFTC is considering its first regulation for prediction markets, as arrests over "insider trading" on everything from military operations to Google Search data continue to stack up. As CoinDesk reports, a notice of proposed rulemaking says "the proposal would establish a structured framework for evaluating whether such contracts involve an activity enumerated in Section […]

Google DeepMind releases DiffusionGemma, a model that runs local AI 4x faster

Diffusion AI is most common in image generation, but it can make text outputs much faster.

AI Data Firm DDN Eyeing a Fresh Funding Round by End of Year

DDN, a data hardware and software provider that counts Nvidia Corp. as a partner and Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Salesforce Inc. as customers, is looking to raise additional funding by the end of the year, Chief Executive Officer Alex Bouzari said.

Microsoft, like, totally gets why students are booing AI-pilled graduation speakers

New college graduates around the country have been booing and heckling commencement speakers who hype up AI. Microsoft would like everyone to talk it out. In a blog post running more than 3,100 words, Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith addressed the recent spate of viral clips from graduation ceremonies, like former Google CEO […]

SpaceX IPO Multiple Times Oversubscribed | Bloomberg Tech 6/10/2026

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss Wall Street’s enthusiasm for SpaceX as the company’s IPO approaches. Plus, Google backstops Anthropic data centers as Silicon Valley races to build AI infrastructure with ever more intertwined deals. And, a new dashboard shows the real-time impact of AI on the labor market. (Source: Bloomberg)

Google won’t just admit it’s feeding YouTube creators to its music AI

If you've uploaded a song to YouTube, Google almost certainly considers your video fair game for training its Lyria music AI, it just won't admit it right now. A group of independent musicians is suing Google, claiming that it illegally used songs they uploaded to YouTube to train its Lyria 3 model. Google has filed […]

Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google

Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.

Google DeepMind chose these startups for its first robotics accelerator

German Court Holds Google Liable For False AI Overview Answers

A Munich regional court has ruled (PDF) that Google can be held directly liable for false claims in AI Overviews. The case involved AI Overviews falsely linking two publishers to scams and shady business practices, with the court rejecting Google's argument that users could simply check the sources themselves. The Decoder reports: Google's AI overviews work nothing like traditional search results, the court argues. The AI rewrites and judges results "in its own words and according to its own str

Google will save your Lens photos, Search Live recordings, and Translate audio for AI training

Google is making some changes to how it saves your interactions with Search. In an email sent to users, Google says it will save the images, files, audio, and video you use to search under a new "Search Services History" setting. That includes the images you search for with Google Lens, recordings from its real-time […]

German court holds Google liable for false AI Overview answers

A recent study found that Google's AI Overviews regularly provide incorrect information and contain facts not supported by cited sources.

A German court says Google’s AI Overviews are Google’s own words, and it’s liable when they’re false

A German court has ruled that Google is directly liable for false claims its AI Overviews make, treating the AI-written summaries as Google’s own speech rather than ordinary search results. It is one of the first rulings to test who is responsible when a generative-AI system gets it wrong, and the answer it gives is […] This story continues at The Next Web

Google Gemini is down for many —here's what we know about the potential outage so far

Google Gemini is down for thousands of users today —here's what we know about the potential outage so far.

Your face is the ticket: Google’s Gemini and biometric gates are the World Cup’s quieter tech story

The 2026 World Cup is rolling out two layers of technology that most of its 10 million visitors will actually touch: a consumer-AI layer led by Google, and a biometric-identity layer that turns a fan’s face into a ticket. This is the quieter half of the tournament’s tech, the half aimed at fans rather than […] This story continues at The Next Web

Investing in multi-agent AI safety research

Google DeepMind and partners announce a $10M funding call for multi-agent safety research.

Artificial Intelligence Sneaks Into the World Cup Thanks to Google Gemini

The Argentine national team will be Google’s test bench and technological showcase during the World Cup.

Big Tech, big cons: Scammers are hiding in the apps that make your life easy

In her new book “Bharat Bluff: Inside the Cons of India’s Internet Revolution,” writer Soumya Gupta explores how fraudsters are exploiting the trust people place in big tech platforms like Google, Facebook, and WhatsApp.

How B2B brands are earning citations in ChatGPT, Claude, and Google’s AI Overviews

The B2B marketing playbook has a new top metric: whether a brand gets cited when a buyer asks an AI assistant a question. The brands that show up inside ChatGPT, Claude, and Google’s AI Overviews, are, with very few exceptions, the brands that also rank well on Google itself. AI visibility is correlated with search rank, […] This story continues at The Next Web

Google's Backstops Underpin $35 Billion Anthropic Chip Deal

Anthropic is leasing powerful computer chips at five data centers with help from Google, one of the artificial intelligence firm's earliest investors. Google has agreed to backstop lease payments at each location, helping Anthropic obtain what amounts to a $35 billion loan. Bloomberg's Neil Campling explains. (Source: Bloomberg)