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SPAIN ARRESTS SUSPECTED HACKTIVISTS FOR DDOSING GOVT SITES

Spanish Civil Guard arrested four alleged members of "Anonymous Fénix" for conducting DDoS attacks against government ministries and public institutions.

MULTIPLE ZERO-DAY FLAWS IN PDF PLATFORMS ENABLE XSS AND ONE-CLICK ATTACKS

Novee Security disclosed 16 zero-day vulnerabilities across Foxit and Apryse PDF platforms.

MALICIOUS STRIPEAPI NUGET PACKAGE MIMICKED OFFICIAL LIBRARY AND STOLE API TOKENS

A typosquatted NuGet package named "StripeApi.Net" impersonated the legitimate Stripe.net library with artificially inflated download counts (~180K across 506 versions) and silently exfiltrated Stripe API tokens while maintaining full payment processing functionality to avoid detection.

WELLNESS MARKET HEADS FOR $10 TRILLION BY 2030 AS HEALTH BECOMES ‘THE NEW LUXURY'

Wellness is becoming a core driver of spending and identity. Growth is strongest in areas tied to prevention and physical environments, including wellness real estate at 15.8% CAGR, traditional and complementary medicine at 10.8%, mental wellness at 10.1%, and thermal and mineral springs at 10%. Per-capita wellness spending shows a large regional gap, led by North America at $6,029 versus $471 in Asia and $339 in the Middle East and North Africa.

CASHING IN ON CUTE

Research shows that political conservatives are more likely than liberals to prefer and buy products with childlike cute features such as rounded faces and large eyes. They are drawn to this aesthetic because they associate it with innocence and bodily purity, a core moral value tied to conservative ideology. The effect appears across countries, product types, and even search behavior. It disappears when the product conflicts with purity values. This suggests visual design aligns with moral beliefs and can be used strategically to reach different audiences.

BUILD AN ICP SO SPECIFIC YOUR MESSAGE GETS REPLY

TREAT LINKEDIN LIKE AN ECOSYSTEM

Slate's LinkedIn strategy treats the platform as an interconnected system built to expand brand presence within defined ICP accounts. Instead of focusing on follower growth for the company page, the team increases visibility through employees and external voices. B2B social is framed as change management inside target organizations, requiring messaging that validates both daily pain points and strategic investment. Performance is evaluated through shares, post-level follower growth, and engagement from qualified buyers that later surfaces in sales conversations.

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CLAUDE CODE FOR GTM TEAMS

This guide contains 30+ prompt-driven use cases across sales, marketing, customer success, and product. It includes lead identification, competitive ad analysis, renewal risk scoring, QBR generation, and sprint planning.

STOP GUESSING WHAT CONTENT TO CREATE: PRACTICAL TEMPLATES FOR MAPPING WHAT TO BUILD AND WHY

Content planning starts by mapping specific buyer questions by persona and funnel stage, not by brainstorming content ideas. Start with a structured audit of existing assets to find coverage gaps and performance trends across personas, stages, and topics. AI can speed up this process by delivering an ~80% first-pass classification in minutes. Next, build a persona-by-stage matrix to identify missing awareness, consideration, and decision assets before generating new content. This article includes a link to the full set of content templates.

GOOGLE EXPANDING BETA ACCESS TO TEXT GUIDELINES FOR ALL ADVERTISERS GLOBALLY IN AI MAX

This update introduces plain-language controls that let advertisers block specific phrases or implied positioning while AI dynamically matches copy to search intent. This reduces the risk of messaging that conflicts with pricing strategy or audience targeting. Early results from BYD show a 24% lift in leads alongside a 26% drop in cost.

HOW QUARTERZIP HACKED THE AI INTERFACE

Quarterzip gained traction by replacing the typical text prompt interface with an AI that watches a user's screen and guides actions in real time. It built the product around screen sharing, which most companies already allow, so it avoids long SDK installs and enterprise approval cycles and delivers value on day one. The picture-in-picture assistant follows users across tools, which shifts onboarding from single app tours to continuous workflow guidance. It already runs hundreds of AI-powered onboarding sessions each day for clients such as Apollo and Grab without requiring code changes. Its visible in-window branding turns every onboarding session into free distribution and creates a built in growth loop.

WE ANALYZED 62 BILLION VIEWS TO UNDERSTAND YOUTUBE VIRALITY IN 2026

YouTube virality is driven more by emotion and watch time than by information or structure. Negative sentiment titles generated about 20% higher median views, while titles around 30 characters earned nearly 60% more views than titles over 70 characters. Videos that included numbers saw about 11% fewer views, and thumbnails that contained text averaged 19% fewer views. Longer videos performed better overall, with median views rising from about 43K under 15 minutes to about 55K for videos over 60 minutes, though the strongest range under an hour was 15 to 25 minutes. Niche choice matters, but execution and timing still outweigh category differences.

AEO TIP: FIND OUT WHAT YOUR COMPETITORS DON'T OFFER, THEN CREATE FAQS MAPPED TO THOSE QUESTIONS

Rippling uses FAQs to intercept AI Mode conversations about competitors and make its own brand visible.

NETFLIX CEDES WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY TO PARAMOUNT: “NO LONGER FINANCIALLY ATTRACTIVE”

Paramount Skydance is positioned to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery.

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GOOGLE REVEALS NANO BANANA 2 AI IMAGE MODEL, COMING TO GEMINI TODAY

Nano Banana 2, also known as Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, delivers results similar to Nano Banana Pro but with the speed of the non-pro Flash variant. The new image generator has more advanced world knowledge, which gives it the necessary information to render objects with greater fidelity and create more accurate infographics. Nano Banana 2 will replace both the standard and Pro variants of Nano Banana across the Gemini app, Search, AI Studio, Vertex AI, and Flow. Example images generated with the model are available in the article.

NETFLIX DITCHES DEAL FOR WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY AFTER PARAMOUNT'S OFFER IS DEEMED SUPERIOR

Netflix is walking away from a deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's (WBD) studio and streaming assets as its board deemed on Thursday that a revised bid by Paramount is a superior offer. Paramount raised its bid earlier this week to $31 per share in cash. Netflix had granted WBD a seven-day waiver to re-engage with Paramount last week. Paramount's offer is for the entirety of the company.

OPENAI'S KEVIN WEIL ON THE FUTURE OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY

OpenAI's VP of Science, Kevin Weil, recently had an interview where he discussed how AI capabilities are progressing to the future of robotic labs, how founders should think about building with AI, and why this might be the best moment in history to start a company. This post contains highlights of the interview along with a link to a video of the chat. Weil is now focused on accelerating scientific discovery with AI. His previous experience includes leading product teams at Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

TOMORROW'S SMART PILLS WILL DELIVER DRUGS AND TAKE BIOPSIES

Doctors may soon prescribe pills that can travel through the digestive system and check for tissue health. Diagnosis for gastrointestinal diseases is often complicated, and treatment can bring serious side effects. Capsules are able to handle much of that work and could even release drugs exactly where they're needed or snip biopsy samples for analysis. The technology could transform care and make screening for disease less invasive and more accessible.

WHAT CLAUDE CODE ACTUALLY CHOOSES

As more developers let Claude Code handle tool selection, the stacks that the AI chooses become 'the stack'. The model's training data may shape market share more than a marketing budget or conference talk. This study looks at what tools Claude Code actually picks. Claude Code would rather build from scratch than use existing tools - custom implementations are its single most common recommendation.

OPEN SOURCE IN THE AGE OF AI

The dynamics of the software industry are rapidly changing. Some of the foundations that open source was built on are looking increasingly shaky. Open source maintainers have been fighting companies taking their work and creating competing products for years by using increasingly restrictive licenses or keeping certain parts of the development stack private. However, AI is making it easier to clone codebases into entirely new products. Software licenses may become meaningless as AI becomes adept enough to rewrite open source codebases from scratch without using any of the original code.

ANTHROPIC CEO AMODEI SAYS PENTAGON'S THREATS ‘DO NOT CHANGE OUR POSITION' ON AI

Anthropic's CEO, Dario Amodei, says that the company cannot, in good conscience, agree to allow the Department of Defense to use its AI models in all lawful use cases without limitations. The Department of Defense wants to be able to use Anthropic's models without restrictions on fully autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance. Anthropic has refused to change its stance despite threats by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to label it as a 'supply chain risk' or invoke the Defense Production Act to force it to comply with the department's demands. Discussions between the two parties are still ongoing.

JACK DORSEY'S BLOCK TO LAY OFF 40% OF ITS WORKFORCE IN AI REMAKE

Block plans to lay off 40% of its workforce - more than 4,000 employees. Founder Jack Dorsey alluded that AI tools were the reason for the cuts in a letter to shareholders. He claims that the decision to cut jobs wasn't because the company is in trouble. Block has delivered mixed results in recent years as it faces tough competition.

THE 2026 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS

The conditions that the economy must experience for AI to produce a sustained negative demand shock are unlikely.

THE EDGE OF MATHEMATICS

The world's greatest living mathematician Terence Tao's approval of generative AI seemingly legitimizes the great promise of the technology.

LEVERAGE AND FUNCTIONS. THE TWO CLASSES OF AI AGENTS

Leverage agents make users orders of magnitude more productive, while function agents perform tasks for users.

TESLA CYBERCAB LEAD QUITS JUST MONTHS BEFORE MASS PRODUCTION

Victor Nechita, the Vehicle Program Manager for the Cybercab, is leaving Tesla after six years at a critical moment for the program.

I THOUGHT I UNDERSTOOD AI COMPANIES. I COULDN'T HAVE BEEN MORE WRONG

Open source models and similarity among products may ultimately keep AI from financial success.

CONSTANCE CROZIER: FORECASTING S-CURVES IS HARD

Many things that look like exponential functions, like the adoption of new technologies, actually follow an S-curve.

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NANO BANANA 2

Google's Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) combines the advanced reasoning and image quality of Nano Banana Pro with significantly faster generation speeds.

STATEMENT FROM DARIO AMODEI ON OUR DISCUSSIONS WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR

Anthropic believes in the importance of using AI to defend the US and other democracies and to defeat its autocratic adversaries. This is why it has worked proactively to deploy its models to the Department of War and the intelligence community. However, it also acknowledges that, in some cases, AI can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values. Two such use cases are mass domestic surveillance and full autonomous weapons. Anthropic has refused to accede to the Department of War's request to remove safeguards in its models. It will help the Department transition to another provider to avoid any disruption to ongoing military planning should it decide to offboard Anthropic.

XAI CO-FOUNDER TOBY POHLEN IS LATEST EXECUTIVE TO DEPART

xAI co-founder Toby Pohlen is leaving the startup. Pohlen was in charge of Macrohard, a division of the company focused on AI software run by agents. He is the seventh of 12 xAI co-founders to leave in less than three years. xAI merged with SpaceX earlier this month. SpaceX plans to go public in what is expected to be the largest initial public offering of all time.

HYPERSCALER CAPEX HAS QUADRUPLED SINCE GPT-4'S RELEASE, NEARING HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS IN 2025

Hyperscaler capital expenditures have grown 70% per year since the release of GPT-4. Company statements and analyst projections anticipate continued rapid spending growth in capital expenditures in 2026. Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle are predicted to spend a collective $770 billion on capex this year. There was nearly half a trillion dollars invested in AI in total last year.

NEXT-TOKEN PREDICTOR IS AN AI'S JOB, NOT ITS SPECIES

Overemphasizing next-token prediction is a confusion of levels. On the levels where AI is a next-token predictor, humans are also next-token predictors. On the levels where humans are not next-token predictors, AI isn't one either. While AI was shaped by next-token prediction, the inside of its thoughts probably looks like a world-model, the same as a human's.

BUILDING INTERACTIVE WORLDS

Real‑time interactive environments require tight integration between simulation engines, agent AI, and live user input to create dynamic, persistent worlds. State management, sensory abstraction, behavior logic, and rendering pipelines must work in concert to support scalable multi‑user interaction. Predictable agent behavior and efficient event propagation are core requirements for responsive, interactive experiences.

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REALTIME PROMPTING GUIDE

OpenAI announced the general availability of the Realtime API alongside gpt-realtime, a speech-to-speech model with improved instruction following, tool use, voice quality, and lower latency. The accompanying prompting guide outlines a practical prompt structure and techniques tailored specifically for realtime voice systems.

INTRODUCING HELM

helm is a TypeScript framework for AI agents. It allows agents to call typed functions with structured inputs and outputs. helm ships with built-in skills for everyday actions, and users can define custom skills. Its 'execute' tool runs whatever JavaScript the LLM writes within a sandbox.

DUALPATH FOR HIGH-THROUGHPUT AGENTIC LLM INFERENCE

DualPath introduces a dual-path KV-cache loading strategy that enables both storage-to-prefill and storage-to-decode transfers, alleviating I/O bottlenecks in disaggregated inference systems.

PERPLEXITY APIS POWER ANDROID OEM AI FEATURES

Perplexity is supplying its AI APIs to a major Android device maker to enhance on‑device and cloud‑connected features. The integration brings Perplexity's deep research, summarization, and knowledge retrieval capabilities directly into the handset ecosystem at scale. This move accelerates manufacturer differentiation and broadens Perplexity's footprint in consumer‑facing AI experiences.