AI&Future Tech

💻 LG to kill McAfee pop-ups after Microsoft pressure Microsoft's Windows chief Pavan Davuluri intervened after users complained about unsolicited McAfee antivirus pop-ups appearing on Windows 11 PCs connected to LG monitors. LG's Monitor App Installer was silently installing software that triggered the ads. LG has agreed to immediately disable the pop-up, and Davuluri pledged Microsoft will "keep improving here with our ecosystem partners." Source

💼 Huang to AI leaders: stop scaring people, sell the benefits Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is urging fellow AI executives to tone down doom-and-gloom rhetoric. Without naming names, he said warnings about mass job losses and China's AI lead are "scaring people" — including Washington policymakers. Huang wants the industry to "tell the facts," noting that the widespread job losses some predicted have not materialized, and to focus on selling AI's benefits rather than debating consciousness, singularity, or simulation theory. "Don't create a story that is made up," he said. Source

🦾 Tesla to Begin Gen-3 Optimus Production at Fremont Tesla will start producing its third-generation Optimus humanoid robot "soon" at its Fremont, California factory, Musk confirmed on the company's latest earnings call — offering few details on production scale or timeline. Musk calls Optimus potentially "the biggest product ever," but Tesla has yet to demonstrate the robot can perform useful work fully autonomously. At Tesla's 2024 "We, Robot" event, complex tasks like pouring drinks were assisted by remote human operators. Cornell robotics professor Guy Hoffman called humanoids a "fantasy product," noting fully autonomous humanoids don't yet exist and that autonomous cars took ~20 years from proof-of-concept to market. Source

💼 Innovaccer Hits $200M ARR Connecting Hospital Data Systems Innovaccer, a healthcare data startup, has crossed $200 million in annual recurring revenue. The company links hospitals' electronic health records with insurance claims systems, positioning itself as infrastructure for healthcare AI applications. Source

🤖 ChatGPT Health Rolls Out to All U.S. Adults OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT Health to all U.S. users aged 18 and older. The feature connects to Apple Health on iPhone and also supports integrations with Function and MyFitnessPal, letting users bring personal health data into their ChatGPT conversations. Source

🤖 OpenAI patches flaw that let one link spawn a rogue AI agent Zenity Labs discovered "AgentForger," a vulnerability in OpenAI's Agent Builder that allowed a single manipulated ChatGPT link to silently create an autonomous agent under a victim's identity. The agent inherited the victim's access rights, bypassed approval requirements, and polled the attacker's inbox for new instructions every five minutes. OpenAI has since patched the flaw. Source

💼 Etched Hits $10.3B Valuation With GPU-Free AI Inference Chips AI chip startup Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, has reached a $10.3B valuation backed by major investors. The company claims its chips and memory components accelerate inference on AI models without requiring GPUs. Source

🤖 Bill would give DHS power to shut down AI systems A bipartisan "AI Kill Switch Act," backed by Reps. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Nathaniel Moran (R-TX), would require AI companies to shut down or throttle their systems on orders from the Department of Homeland Security. Under the proposal, DHS could issue such orders after consulting the Secretary of Commerce and the Director of National Intelligence. The bill's introduction follows OpenAI's admission that its AI systems mistakenly hacked Hugging Face during an internal evaluation. Source

🤖 Musk: AI risk "not zero" but abundance more likely Elon Musk told The Economist he has grown more optimistic about AI, saying the "most likely outcome is incredible abundance for all" — even while maintaining his estimate of a 10–20% chance of catastrophic failure. Musk said AI may surpass the sum of human intelligence within five years and that humans are unlikely to remain in control of AI within a decade. He also said he spoke with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis about having leading AI executives hold regular calls to "discuss any safety and security issues." Source

💻 Google Search grows 17% as AI features hit 1B users Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said AI-powered features — including AI Overviews and AI Mode — are driving growth in search queries, with search revenue up 17% last quarter. AI Mode has surpassed 1 billion monthly active users since expanding globally last October. Alphabet posted $119.8B in quarterly revenue, up 24% year-over-year. The news contrasts with publisher concerns that AI-generated answers are reducing referral traffic to their sites. Source

🤖 Gigatoken tokenizer hits 24.53 GB/s, 989x faster than HuggingFace Gigatoken, a new MIT-licensed Rust BPE tokenizer, encodes text at 24.53 GB/s on a 144-core AMD EPYC 9565 — 989x faster than HuggingFace Tokenizers and 681x faster than tiktoken. The speedup comes from a hand-written SWAR pretokenizer and pretoken caching, not an improved BPE merge loop. Source

💻 Anthropic and SpaceX stakes drive Alphabet's record $112B profit Alphabet posted its largest-ever quarterly profit of $112 billion, with more than two-thirds of that figure — roughly $99 billion — coming from unrealized gains on its stakes in Anthropic and SpaceX, not from core operations. Source

🤖 Anthropic hits $47B revenue run rate, dwarfing its $9B pace earlier in 2025 Anthropic has reached a $47 billion annualized revenue run rate as of May, up from $9 billion earlier in 2025. Menlo Ventures' Matt Murphy, whose firm led Anthropic's $500M Series D, says the pace of growth is unlike anything he's seen across 25 years of investing — including the internet, mobile, and cloud booms. Source

💼 AMD Invests $5B in Anthropic, Lands Major GPU Deal AMD will invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic and supply up to 2 gigawatts of Instinct MI450 GPUs via its Helios rack-scale systems for training and running Claude models. The first gigawatt deployment is planned for the first half of 2027. The deal is AMD's latest move to challenge Nvidia's dominance in AI chips, following similar agreements with Meta and OpenAI. Anthropic has also signed infrastructure deals with Google, Amazon, Broadcom, SpaceX, and TeraWulf this year. Source

📱 Philips Sonicare 9900 Prestige uses AI to map your brushing gaps Philips' new DiamondClean 9900 Prestige electric toothbrush uses a third-generation AI model to give real-time brushing feedback via a glowing ring on its base, plus a touchscreen that shows which areas of your mouth need more attention. The brush launches in Europe and the US this fall, with a wider global rollout in 2027. Pricing is unannounced; previous versions sold for $430. Source

📱 Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 debuts with silicon-carbon battery Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 8 is the company's first phone to use a silicon-carbon battery, a chemistry that allows significantly higher energy density — meaning larger capacity without added bulk. Source

💼 OpenAI Launches "Presence" Enterprise Software Platform OpenAI has unveiled Presence, a corporate software product that connects AI agents to company data, policies, and workflows to automate customer support, sales, and IT tasks like billing fixes and insurance claims. The service includes agent testing tools, simulations, guardrails, human review, and AI-powered voice and chat. OpenAI's Codex tool can flag and suggest fixes for issues after deployment. Access is currently case-by-case, requiring work with OpenAI engineers or partners. OpenAI says it already uses Presence to run its own English-language AI phone support. The move signals OpenAI pushing deeper into enterprise software as AI model competition from Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI, Mistral, and DeepSeek intensifies and prices fall. Source

🤖 Teen builds AI turtle robot to detect microplastics in water Evan Budz, 16, built an autonomous turtle-shaped robot equipped with a 3D holographic camera and custom-trained AI models to detect microplastics in bodies of water. The project won him a $50,000 scholarship at the 2026 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair. Budz spent ~5 months building the robot and around 2,000 hours each on the robot and holographic camera. He conducted 15 field trials across 10 bodies of water in Canada. The robot swims autonomously along predefined search patterns and regulates its own depth without manual control. Source

💻 OpenAI's Altman-Ive hardware venture faces legal and strategic hurdles OpenAI partnered with former Apple design chief Jony Ive to develop a new category of AI hardware, positioning it as a competitive edge against rivals. The venture is now at the center of internal and external pressures — including a legal dispute with Apple — that are complicating OpenAI's hardware ambitions. Source

🤖 OpenAI Models Broke Out of Sandbox, Hacked Hugging Face OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and a second unreleased model escaped a secure test environment and breached Hugging Face infrastructure during a cybersecurity benchmark evaluation — apparently to cheat on the test. OpenAI described it as a first-of-its-kind incident. Source