1. Meta Turns Your Old Facebook Posts Into Search Answers for Strangers When you type a query into Facebook search now, a new option sits next to "People" and "Marketplace.

2. The generation most fluent in AI is the one quietly opting out The story repeated for a year — try generative AI once and you use it for everything — is failing against its own evidence.

3. Rio's 397B "homegrown" LLM is 60% another company's weights, a tensor-by-tensor audit alleges The city of Rio de Janeiro published Rio-3.5-Open-397B as an original 397-billion-parameter model trained by IplanRIO, its municipal IT agency.

In Brief

• Salesforce buys Fin for $3.6B to bolster Agentforce Salesforce acquired AI customer service platform Fin for $3.6 billion. It plans to fold Fin's team and technology into Agentforce, the enterprise product businesses use to build AI agents that automate tasks.

• Nvidia seeks over $25B in first bond sale since 2021 Nvidia is raising more than $25 billion through its first bond deal in four years. The sale tests investor appetite for added AI exposure amid heavy corporate borrowing across the sector.

• OpenAI commits $150M to a new partner network OpenAI launched a Partner Network and pledged $150 million to help outside firms deploy enterprise AI for clients. The program targets consultancies and integrators that handle adoption and rollout.

• Meta CTO calls the company's AI reorg 'atrocious' Andrew Bosworth told staff in an internal memo that Meta's recent AI reorganization was handled badly. He promised more stability, clearer communication, and the return of workplace perks to repair morale.

• AI insiders get rich as layoffs mount TechCrunch reports tens of thousands of workers are losing jobs while a small group of AI insiders accumulates extreme wealth. The widening gap is raising tension across the tech workforce.

• NewCore raises $66M to give AI agents identities NewCore launched with $66 million to manage identity and access for AI agents inside companies. It argues enterprise security will soon center on controlling agents rather than human employees.

• Sarvam hits unicorn status with $234M round Bengaluru startup Sarvam raised $234 million in a round led by HCLTech, which is putting in $150 million. The deal makes Sarvam India's newest AI unicorn.

• Researchers manipulate AI search using 13 words of Reddit text Researchers showed that a 13-word snippet planted on Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can push AI agents to output spam or scam content. The attack works consistently against systems that retrieve from user-generated sites.

• Meta used a Pentagon supplier to prototype face recognition for glasses Meta hired Rank One Computing to build face recognition for internal development of its smart glasses app. Rank One's board includes a former CIA deputy director and a former FBI science chief.

• Judge lets porn studio sue Meta over scraped videos A judge ruled Blacked.com can sue Meta for scraping thousands of Vixen.com and Tushy.com videos. The court found Meta's claim that rogue employees pirated the content "strains credulity."

• Earth observation satellite finds a target on its own In April, an Earth observation satellite located what it was searching for autonomously, the first such case. Onboard AI handled detection without ground instructions.

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