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🧠 Google DeepMind boss steps down
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- Demis Hassabis is leaving his day-to-day role running Google DeepMind to become Alphabet's chief scientist and DeepMind chairman, saying he wants to focus on artificial general intelligence, which he believes is now close at hand.
- Koray Kavukcuoglu, a 13-year DeepMind veteran and its chief technology officer, will take over as senior vice president reporting to Sundar Pichai, overseeing Gemini development, Frontier AI research, and the Gemini app, which now has over 950 million monthly users.
- Hassabis will spend more time at Isomorphic Labs, the Alphabet-backed drug discovery firm, saying AI should first prove its worth by helping cure diseases like cancer, building on DeepMind's AlphaFold work that predicted 200 million protein structures.
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🤖 Meta launches its first AI coding agent
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- Meta launched its first coding agent, Muse Code, in a preview version, letting developers install it with one command to plan changes, write code, and validate results across a wide variety of software engineering tasks.
- The tool comes from AI chief Alexandr Wang, who leads Meta Superintelligence Labs, and represents another way CEO Mark Zuckerberg aims to make money from AI while spending heavily on data centers and computing infrastructure.
- Muse Code works alongside the Muse Spark 1.2 model and competes with Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex on price, offering a pay-as-you-go option and a contributor tier Wang says is more than 10 times cheaper.
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🗺️ Google Maps AI can now order food
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- Google is expanding Ask Maps, the chatbot it added to Maps in March, with new agentic capabilities that let you order food conversationally through partnerships with Toast and Square, with Uber Eats to follow at a later date.
- The same integration lets Ask Maps help book hotels and find live events, while Personal Intelligence connects the chatbot to Gmail first, letting it check where you're staying before suggesting nearby restaurants, though it stays off by default.
- Ask Maps now generates live transit widgets showing wait times and delays, lets Local Guides suggest edits through photos, and is expanding to Australia, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico and 150 other countries in English.
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🍎 Apple private relay can leak your real IP address
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- Apple's iCloud Private Relay, meant to hide Safari users' IP addresses, can be tricked into leaking a person's real IP, and many websites may have already gathered that information, security researchers found.
- The leaks come from three WebKit features that skip proxy settings: WebAuthn Related Origin Requests, active since iOS 18, plus DNS prefetching and WebTransport, both added in iOS 26, with the WebAuthn one needing no user prompt.
- The same flaws hit proxy-based browsers like Psylo and Onion Browser; Apple told 404 Media it is investigating and marked the report as one it plans to fix, with a patch set for fall 2026.
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⚖️ OpenAI asks judge to toss Apple lawsuit
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- OpenAI has asked a U.S. judge to dismiss Apple's lawsuit accusing it and two former Apple employees of stealing trade secrets, saying it has "no use, need or desire" for Apple's confidential technology.
- In the Wednesday motion, OpenAI argued that Apple's July complaint names no specific trade secrets, fails to prove it owns protectable ones, and never shows the defendants took anything as it builds "something entirely new."
- The fight centers on AI-powered hardware, with analysts expecting OpenAI to make its own phone-like device; despite it, the two remain partners, since iPhone users reach ChatGPT through Siri and can subscribe from iOS settings.
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