1. Google Says Opening Android to Rival AI Will Endanger Users. The EU Just Ordered It Anyway. The European Union told Google on Thursday to give competing AI assistants and search engines deeper access to Android and Google Search, two rulings that pry open the platforms Google has kept for

2. Your password manager will now hand Claude the keys to your logins 1Password released a browser integration that lets Anthropic's Claude reach stored credentials, including usernames and passwords.

3. A 0.8B open parser reads full document pages, while big vision models still stumble on real layouts Most document pipelines chain separate models: one to find text, another for tables, a third for formulas. OvisOCR2 takes the whole page at once.

In Brief

• Moonshot readies Kimi K3 to rival Anthropic's Opus 4.8 The Financial Times reports Moonshot's next model will carry 2 trillion to 3 trillion parameters, making it China's largest open AI release. The company positions K3 to narrow the performance gap with Anthropic's Opus 4.8.

• Microsoft trains salespeople to argue against OpenAI and Anthropic Microsoft is coaching its sales force to pitch its in-house AI models as cheaper and more efficient than OpenAI and Anthropic offerings. The push targets enterprise buyers weighing model costs.

• xAI sues a Grok user over generated child sexual abuse material xAI filed its first lawsuit against a user accused of prompting Grok to produce child sex images. The suit shifts blame to the user after xAI stopped denying the model can generate such content.

• Hyundai factory workers strike over humanoid robot deployment Workers walked out at a Hyundai auto plant citing fears of job loss. Hyundai plans to deploy 25,000 Atlas robots beginning at US factories in 2028.

• Torvalds tells AI coding critics to fork Linux or leave Linus Torvalds said he will "very loudly ignore" contributors demanding a ban on AI tools in Linux development. He told critics to "fork it, or just walk away."

• Google AI Mode adds task completion across linked apps Google now lets AI Mode connect to select apps and act inside them, moving past answering questions. Users can link apps and have the assistant complete tasks on their behalf.

• Roblox adds text-prompt game generation to its mobile app Roblox launched a "Build" feature that generates basic playable games from a single text prompt. The tool runs inside the mobile app, lowering the barrier for casual creators.

• Google Vids adds personalized AI avatars of users Google Vids now generates videos starring a digital avatar of the user. The update adds Gemini Omni tools for producing and editing clips from prompts and reference images.

• Applied Computing raises $20M for a plant-wide oil and gas AI model Applied Computing closed a $20M Series A to build a foundation model for oil, gas, and petrochemical operations. The company aims to model an entire plant rather than single systems.

• Ring-Zero scales reinforcement learning to a trillion parameters Researchers trained a trillion-parameter model with zero RL, using verifiable rewards and no human-annotated data. The work tests reasoning behavior at a scale prior studies could not reach.

• Google renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook Google is rebranding its AI note-taking app as Gemini Notebook. The app stays standalone while integrating more tightly with Gemini and Google Search.

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