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Microsoft patched 570 vulnerabilities on Patch Tuesday, aided by AI-driven discoveries.
Microsoft patched a vulnerability in Age of Empires II that could have allowed remote code execution via a malicious game invite.
TechCrunch roundup combines AI hardware privacy debates (Lorde on AI glasses), regulatory/legal developments (AI training lawsuits and token-spend caps), and major funding milestones (PixVerse, OpenAI researcher Miles Wang’s drug-discovery venture) with several hard numeric data points.
Meta's Adam Mosseri suggests AI token spending could be capped per engineer in the future, with current caps not in place and costs rising, reflecting a broader push to treat AI spend as a governed OpEx.
Open-weight/open-source AI models are gaining traction in production use, led by Chinese firms, as cheaper, customizable options threaten frontier models' dominance and raise questions about where value sits in enterprise AI.
Reflection AI signs a $1B compute deal with Nebius, a partner with substantial compute commitments (Meta up to $27B; Microsoft up to $19.4B), as Reflection files open-model ambitions and has raised ~$2.6B alongside strong backers; the piece frames regulatory pressure on powerful AI models and data-retention concerns as a tailwind for open-source/open-weight AI ecosystems.
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