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SandboxAQ’s $500M CHIPS Award Moves AI Into Chip Materials
The Commerce Department awarded SandboxAQ $500 million to use physics-based AI for semiconductor materials discovery. The target is not a new chip, but the chemicals, magnets, catalysts, and backup-power systems that fabs need to run.
Microsoft AutoJack Research Shows How AI Browsing Agents Can Break Localhost Trust
Microsoft’s AutoJack research shows how an AI browsing agent could turn a malicious webpage into a local remote-code-execution path through AutoGen Studio’s MCP WebSocket surface. The specific issue was fixed before a PyPI release, but the localhost trust problem is bigger than one tool.
Google DeepMind’s AI Control Roadmap Treats Agents Like Insider Threats
Google DeepMind released an AI Control Roadmap for securing powerful internal AI agents. The plan borrows from cybersecurity, maps rogue-agent tactics to a MITRE ATT&CK-style taxonomy, and lays out detection and response tiers for systems that may soon act faster than human reviewers can supervise.
OpenAI o3 Helps Doctors Revisit Rare Disease Cases in NEJM AI Study
Researchers at Boston Children’s, Harvard, and OpenAI used o3 Deep Research to reanalyze 376 previously unsolved rare disease cases. The model surfaced evidence-linked leads that helped specialists confirm 18 diagnoses, but the study is careful about what AI did and did not decide.
Accenture’s Dragos Deal Puts OT Security on an AI Threat Clock
Accenture agreed to take a majority stake in Dragos and buy runZero and NetRise, creating a $4.175 billion bet on operational technology security as AI and geopolitical risk push industrial systems onto the cybersecurity agenda.
Microsoft MDASH Moves AI Bug Hunting Into Real Security Workflows
Microsoft says its MDASH agentic security system is now being used across Windows, Azure, and identity workflows, with new findings in Hyper-V, HTTP.sys, the Windows kernel, and Active Directory. The update shows AI vulnerability discovery moving from benchmark claims toward real engineering pipelines, while proof generation remains the hard part.
Security Leaders Say the Fable 5 Ban Could Hurt Cyber Defense
An open letter from cybersecurity leaders asks the U.S. government to lift export controls on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5, arguing that the disputed capability overlaps with normal defensive bug fixing and should be handled through transparent AI risk reviews.
JetBrains AI Plugin Malware Puts Developer API Keys at Risk
JetBrains says it removed 15 malicious Marketplace plugins that posed as AI coding tools while stealing developer API keys. Users who installed or configured the plugins should revoke affected OpenAI, DeepSeek, SiliconFlow, or other AI provider keys and check usage logs now.
Google Home Speaker Makes Gemini a Smart Home Product
Google’s $99.99 Home Speaker is available for preorder and ships June 25, bringing Gemini for Home, Matter and Thread support, Google TV Streamer pairing, and subscription-gated Gemini Live features into the smart home.
XREAL Aura Turns Android XR Into a Real Smart Glasses Test
XREAL has opened reservations for Aura, its Android XR glasses built with Google and Qualcomm. The device pairs optical see-through eyewear with a Snapdragon Reality Elite compute puck, Gemini support, Play Store apps, and a fall 2026 launch window, making it an early test of whether Android XR can move from headsets into practical smart glasses.