Microsoft breaks another patch Tuesday record
According to The Verge, Microsoft will break another Patch Tuesday record, the third in months. Sources link the surge to AI models like Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's cybersecurity model discovering vulnerabilities across operating systems and browsers. The story points to a busy summer for Windows and security engineers amid accelerating AI-assisted vulnerability discovery.
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Mistral raises €3B as sovereign AI becomes big business
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AlphaGenome Atlas: A predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in the human genome
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Google’s Atlas of the human genome could pave the way for new treatments
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