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Exaforce raises $125M Series B to build AI for catching and stopping cyberattacks as they happen

MARINA TEMKIN

The round valued the three-year-old startup at $725 million.

All Your Hantavirus Questions, Answered by an Infectious Disease Expert

EMILY MULLIN

Here’s what you need to know, from why the cruise ship outbreak won’t spark the next pandemic to how hantavirus spreads.

Trump Media Scales Back Plans for Its Own Prediction Market

KATE KNIBBS

Truth Predict was supposed to be the Trump family’s biggest leap yet into prediction markets. Now it’s looking more like a tiptoe.

Threads tests a Meta AI integration that works similarly to Grok

AISHA MALIK

The feature is designed to help people get real-time context about trends and breaking stories, as well as receive recommendations, all within conversations.

U.S. bank disclose security lapse after sharing customer data with AI app

LORENZO FRANCESCHI-BICCHIERAI

The bank said the security lapse was due to the use of an “unauthorized” AI software app.

Indigo brings the open social web to one app

SARAH PEREZ

Indigo's new social app lets you cross-post to the open social web, including Mastodon and Bluesky, and browse a unified timeline.

Android adds a feature to stop you from doomscrolling

SARAH PEREZ

Google’s new Android feature, Pause Point, forces you to wait before opening distracting apps in an effort to curb addictive scrolling habits.

Google unveils Googlebooks, a new line of AI-native laptops

AISHA MALIK

The company says Googlebooks, which are launching this fall, are the first laptops designed from the ground up for Gemini Intelligence to offer personal and proactive help.

Google’s ‘Create My Widget’ feature will let you vibe code your own widgets

AISHA MALIK

The new feature will first launch on the latest Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel phones this summer.

Google launches new Android security feature to help uncover spyware attacks

LORENZO FRANCESCHI-BICCHIERAI

Intrusion Logging is a new part of Android’s Advanced Protection Mode, which aims to help protect human rights activists, journalists, and dissidents from government spyware attack and law enforcement forensic devices.

The AI legal services industry is heating up. Anthropic is getting in on the action.

LUCAS ROPEK

As the AI legal services industry heats up, Anthropic is launching its own suite of features designed to assist law firms.

Google brings agentic AI and vibe-coded widgets to Android

IVAN MEHTA

Gemini Intelligence will also include Gboard based dictation and form filling capabilities

The Top New Features in Google’s Android 17—and Gemini Intelligence—Coming This Summer

JULIAN CHOKKATTU

You’ll soon be able to generate your own widgets or ask Gemini to finish a booking in Chrome on Android.

Everything Google announced at its Android Show, from Googlebooks to vibe-coded widgets

SARAH PEREZ, IVAN MEHTA, AISHA MALIK

Google unveiled its new AI-first Googlebooks laptops, more agentic Gemini features, vibe-coded Android widgets, Gemini in Chrome, refreshed Android Auto, and more ahead of I/O.

Googlebook Is Google's New AI-Powered Laptop Platform Built on Android

JULIAN CHOKKATTU

They won't replace Chromebooks, but Googlebooks have an Android-centered operating system, AI-first features like the Magic Pointer, and a promise of desktop-grade apps.