Valve explains why it isn’t subsidizing the Steam Machine
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The Steam Machine is the most ambitious game console I’ve ever played
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Valve prices the Steam Machine at $1,049
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Five Eyes urges organizations to ‘act now’ against AI cyber threats.
The intelligence-sharing alliance says that Al models are anticipated to fundamentally transform offensive and defensive cyber capabilities in a matter of months, and that “breaches will occur” as previously unknown vulnerabilities emerge. “Adversaries are already using AI to move faster and more effectively,” said Five Eyes. “Defenders must do the same.”
Perplexity is going to show Getty Images photos in its search results.
The two companies announced “a global multi‑year licensing agreement,” and Perplexity will “be making improvements to how it displays imagery, including image credit with link to source, to better educate users on how to use licensed imagery legally,” according to a press release.
ChatGPT adds licensed pictures from Getty Images.
Under a multi-year agreement, ChatGPT will surface photos from Getty Images in its responses, as well as within its search results. Getty Images has a similar deal with Perplexity.
Read this before you vibe-code another app
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Samsung is no longer South Korea’s most valuable company.
Chipmaker SK Hynix, which supplies high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips to Nvidia and Google, has overtaken Samsung, with Reuters reporting that its market capitalization has now hit $1.35 trillion. Samsung had held the top spot since 2000, prior to the AI boom.
Microsoft's Satya Nadella says AI monopolies are a problem (duh).
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, the Microsoft CEO says that people won’t tolerate a small group of companies “doing all of the learning for the world.” Insert the We’re-All-Trying-To-Find-The-Guy-Who-Did-This meme. According to Nadella:
Google AI scientists win Nobel Prize in chemistry
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Google's Nobel Prize-Winning AI Researcher is Joining Anthropic.
John Jumper, who has worked as a researcher at Google DeepMind since 2017, announced his departure from the company on X. In 2024, Jumper and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing an open-source AI model that predicts protein structures.
Norway is putting restrictions on AI use in school.
As Reuters reports, the new restrictions will go into effect in August, limiting how students in different age groups use AI:
Hue’s wired wall modules bring non-smart lights into its ecosystem
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The film about Sam Altman has been dropped by Amazon MGM
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Our long national sunscreen nightmare is almost over
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Google DeepMind announced an “AI Control Roadmap” for improving AI agent security.
“Think of it like a driving instructor with dual controls,” Google’s blog post stated. “The instructor trusts the student but stays ready to take the wheel or hit the brakes if a mistake occurs.” Google DeepMind’s plan itself lays out “internal guardrails designed to catch potential adversarial behaviour by AI agents, even as they become increasingly harder to oversee and contain,” naming methods like chain-of-thought monitoring, asynchronous alerts, real-time access control, and shutdown infrastructure.
Spike Jonze, director of Her, warned of AI systems’ ability to manipulate.
“AIs that pretend to be human are, you know, manipulative,” Jonze said Wednesday at Replit’s Vibecon conference in New York City. “The kids need to grow up knowing these are going to be very, very convincing and very seductive — and very useful and very powerful — but they’re still just a system, an incredible system of pattern recognition.”
Kaleidescape’s High-End Movie Player Is Too Legit
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This robotic self-driving toilet comes to you
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US cybersecurity coordinator finally got access to Mythos Preview, report says.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) gained access to the limited release cybersecurity-focused model last week, Nextgov/FCW reports. It’s just a little late, since the rest of the world has mostly moved onto the drama around the Trump administration’s block of the safeguarded public version of the model, Fable.
