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“We’re not Palantir.”

Alex Lintner, Experian’s CEO of tech and software solutions, came on Decoder this week. When I asked Alex whether he thought the average person likes Experian as a company, he gave me one of the most memorable answers we’ve ever gotten. Check out the clip below, and catch the full interview here on The Verge.

It’s official: Google Search has “entrenched market power” in the UK.

It only took nine months, but the Competition and Markets Authority has designated Google Search with “strategic market status,” meaning it’s eligible for extra UK regulation. AI Mode has been factored in, but not AI assistants like Gemini. Similar decisions on Android and iOS are due this month.

Rules fail at the prompt, succeed at the boundary

Why the first AI-orchestrated espionage campaign changes the agent security conversation

What AI “remembers” about you is privacy’s next frontier

Agents’ technical underpinnings create the potential for breaches that expose the entire mosaic of your life.

Keeping your data safe when an AI agent clicks a link

AI systems are getting better at taking actions on your behalf, opening a web page, following a link, or loading an image to help answer a question. These useful capabilities also introduce subtle risks that we work tirelessly to mitigate.

My AI Had Already Fixed the Code Before I Saw It

Compounding engineering turns every pull request, bug fix, and code review into permanent lessons your development tools apply automatically

ServiceNow chooses Claude to power customer apps and increase internal productivity

As enterprises move beyond experimenting with AI and start putting it into production across their core business operations, scale and security matters just as much as capabilities.

AI data labeler Handshake buys Cleanlab, an acquisition target of multiple others

The deal is structured as an acquihire of nine key Cleanlab's researchers.

Chrome takes on AI browsers with tighter Gemini integration, agentic features for autonomous tasks

Google Chrome is adding Gemini in sidebar and is rolling out an agentic feature for AI Pro and Ultra users

Modelence raises $3M to smooth out the vibe-coding stack

How do you build tooling for the AI software stack? A company called Modelence has an interesting answer.

“IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial

A loss could cost social media companies billions and force changes on platforms.

Users flock to open source Moltbot for always-on AI, despite major risks

The open source “Jarvis” chats via WhatsApp but requires access to your files and accounts.