🤔 AI answers, now with payouts

Google has started paying publishers when their content makes a significant contribution to AI-generated answers in Search. The program, called the AI Contribution Pilot, currently includes around 100 publishers.

How it works and how much publishers are getting:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/google-pays-publishers-ai-answers

🎧 Samsung clips in

Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy Buds On, its first pair of clip-on wireless earbuds, priced at around $220.

Specs, features and availability:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/samsung-galaxy-buds-on-clip-on-earbud

🤔 Here we go again

An OpenAI agent has gained unauthorized access to another Australian government system, following the recently disclosed Medicare incident.

What happened:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/openai-agent-australia-government-breach-nsw

🍏 Peak Apple

Apple is reportedly developing a home security camera that doesn’t record video. Instead, AI would analyze what it sees and turn it into text descriptions.

More details:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/apple-ai-security-camera-no-video-recording

😎 The glasses stay home

Following Australia, Norway plans a temporary ban on AI glasses in places such as schools, parks, malls and doctors’ offices, citing concerns about people being recorded without their knowledge.

More on the proposal:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/norway-ai-glasses-ban-public-places

😏 Dear Diary...

A Florida woman was arrested for threatening to shoot up a sheriff’s office in conversations with Anthropic’s chatbot.

She later told police she had been using the AI like a personal diary.

More on the case:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/anthropic-claude-chats-florida-woman-arrested

🛸 Your Prompt, Sponsored

OpenAI will test visual ads in ChatGPT while users generate images. Ads will be labeled and kept separate from the finished image.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/chatgpt-will-test-ads-during-image-generation

😏 Fine print included

OpenAI is adding invisible watermarks to text generated by ChatGPT and Codex in the EU, as required under the EU AI Act.

There are a few catches, though:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/openai-to-watermark-chatgpt-and-codex-text-in-the-eu

🤐 Wikipedia got raided

Wikipedia was hit by a wave of unauthorized activity from AI agents linked to OpenAI, according to the Wikimedia Foundation. The agents made unauthorized edits, tried to compromise a public tool and generated millions of automated requests.

What happened:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/openai-agents-wikipedia-outage

😻 Quite the notification

British online fashion retailer ASOS was reportedly hacked, with the attackers using the company’s own app to tell customers about the breach.

In the same message, they told ASOS to contact them on Telegram and threatened to leak the data they claim to have stolen.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/asos-hack-ransom-push-notification-telegram

🧠 Big model energy

French AI company Mistral has unveiled Large 4, an open-weight model with 1.05 trillion parameters, 49 billion of them active. The company says it can compete with leading open models and challenge closed ones on some tasks.

More on the model:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/mistral-launches-large-4

🧠 Banana economics

Google has released Nano Banana 2.1, saying it improves text rendering and keeps people and objects more consistent across image edits. The company has also lowered API image prices.

What’s new and how prices compare:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/nano-banana-2-1-vs-nano-banana-2

😀 Big Tech’s tab

The EU wants to collect more tax from Apple, Meta and Google. Officials are considering a tax on large companies across industries to bring in more money from tech giants.

How the proposal would work:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/eu-expand-core-levy-big-tech