1. Hackers Turned the Claude Code Leak Into a Malware Trap A developer finds a GitHub repository promising the leaked Claude Code source. The README looks right. File names match what security researchers described in public posts.

2. Nearly Half of US AI Data Center Projects Stall Under the Administration's Own Tariffs Nearly half of planned AI data center projects in the US now face delays, according to Ars Technica. The bottleneck: power infrastructure components that overwhelmingly come from China.

3. Microsoft and Grammarly Hit the Limits of AI Brand Sprawl Microsoft now applies the "Copilot" label to products spanning Windows, Microsoft 365, GitHub, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Azure, Edge, and Teams.

In Brief

• Apple Approves Driver Enabling Nvidia eGPUs on Arm Macs Apple signed off on a driver from the tinygrad project that allows Nvidia external GPUs to work with Apple Silicon Macs. The move reopens a hardware path that Apple closed when it dropped Nvidia support during the Intel-to-Arm transition.

• Japan Deploys Physical AI Robots to Fill Chronic Labor Shortages Japan is moving experimental robotics from pilot programs into production roles across industries that can't attract human workers. The country's aging population and shrinking workforce have made it a testing ground for physical AI at scale.

• Suno's Copyright Filters Fail to Block Protected Music The Verge found that Suno's content moderation system, which is supposed to prevent users from generating copyrighted songs, fails repeatedly. Users can reproduce recognizable versions of protected tracks despite the platform's stated policy against copyrighted material.

• Google Adds Gemini-Powered Trip Planning to Maps Google Maps now uses Gemini to generate full day itineraries from natural-language prompts. The feature assembles stops, routes, and timing into a single plan within the Maps interface.

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