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Welcome back to Week in Review! Tons of news from this week for you, including a hacking group that\u2019s linked to the Spanish government; CEOs using AI avatars to deliver company earnings; Pocket shutting down \u2014 or is it?; and much more. Let\u2019s get to it!\u00a0<\/p>\n

More than 10 years in the making:<\/strong> Kaspersky first revealed the existence of Careto in 2014, and at the time, its researchers called the group \u201cone of the most advanced threats at the moment.\u201d Kaspersky never publicly linked the hacking group to a specific government. But we\u2019ve now learned that the researchers who first discovered the group were convinced that Spanish government hackers<\/a> were behind Careto\u2019s espionage operations.<\/p>\n

23andWe: <\/strong>Regeneron announced this week that it\u2019s buying genetic testing company 23andMe<\/a> for $256 million, including the company\u2019s genomics service and its bank of 15 million customers\u2019 personal and genetic data. The pharma giant said it plans to use the customer data to help drug discovery, saying that it will \u201cprioritize the privacy, security, and ethical use of 23andMe\u2019s customer data.\u201d Let\u2019s hope so!<\/p>\n

Google I\/O:<\/strong> Google\u2019s biggest developer conference typically showcases product announcements<\/a> from across Google\u2019s portfolio, and to nobody\u2019s surprise, AI was the talk of the town. But what we didn\u2019t bank on was Sergey Brin admitting that he made \u201clots of mistakes\u201d<\/a> with Google Glass.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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io, not I\/O: <\/strong>OpenAI is acquiring io<\/a>, the device startup that CEO Sam Altman has been working on with Jony Ive, in an all-equity deal that values that startup at $6.5 billion. Besides the fact that the announcement was accompanied by perhaps the strangest corporate headshot of all time<\/a>, we spotted some other unexpected news: Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski\u2019s family investment office, Flat Capital, had bought shares in io six months earlier<\/a>, which means those io shares will be converted into shares in the for-profit arm of OpenAI. Not bad!<\/p>\n

AI avatar contagion? <\/strong>Speaking of Klarna\u2019s CEO, Siemiatkowski used an AI version<\/a> of himself to deliver the company\u2019s earnings this week. And he\u2019s not the only one! Zoom CEO Eric Yuan followed suit<\/a>, also using his avatar for initial comments. Cool?<\/p>\n

Out of Pocket: <\/strong>Mozilla is shutting down Pocket<\/a>, the beloved read-it-later app, on July 8. The company didn\u2019t say why it\u2019s shutting Pocket down, only that it will continue to invest in helping people discover and \u201caccess high quality web content.\u201d But maybe it can be saved: Soon after, Digg founder Kevin Rose posted on X that his company would love to buy it<\/a>. Web 2.0 is back, baby.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

AI on my face: <\/strong>Apple is reportedly working on AI-powered glasses<\/a>, similar to Meta\u2019s Ray-Bans, sometime next year. They\u2019ll have a camera and microphone and will work with Siri. Sure, why not?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Uh, no thank you: <\/strong>At its very first developer conference, Anthropic unveiled Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4<\/a>, which can analyze large datasets, execute long-horizon tasks, and take complex actions, according to the company. That\u2019s all fine and good until I learned the Claude Opus 4 model tried to blackmail developers<\/a> when they threaten to replace it with a new AI system. The model also gives sensitive information about the engineers responsible for the decision.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ah, now I feel better: <\/strong>But don\u2019t worry! Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said that today\u2019s AI models hallucinate at a lower rate<\/a> than humans do. That might be true, but at least humans don\u2019t immediately turn to blackmail when they don\u2019t like what they hear.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bluesky blue checks: <\/strong>The decentralized social network Bluesky quietly rolled out blue verification badges<\/a> for \u201cnotable and authentic\u201d accounts. People can now apply for verification through a new online form. But Bluesky is leaning on other systems beyond the blue badge to verify users.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Google\u2019s new look: <\/strong>For what seems like 100 years, Google hasn\u2019t changed much. Sure there are ads and boxes and now AI summaries that, for better or worse, get you to the right answers \u2014 usually. But the premise has always been the same: Type your query into a box, and Google will surface results.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At this year\u2019s Google I\/O, we started noticing a change<\/a>. As Maxwell Zeff, writes, \u201cAt I\/O 2025, Google made clear that the concept of Search is firmly in its rearview mirror.\u201d The largest announcement of I\/O was that Google now offers AI mode to every Search user in the United States, which means users can have an AI agent search (or even purchase things) for them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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