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Waymo will test self-driving Toyota bZ4X vehicles in Japan starting 2026, expanding its robotaxi operations to Japan and the U.K. through a Toyota partnership.

Google DeepMind released Genie 4 in research preview, adding real-time audio, improved realism, and mid-simulation text steering to its world model.

Two critical PHP vulnerabilities threatened widespread web disruption. PHP powers the majority of the internet, making flaws in the language a systemic risk.

Microsoft linked a China-aligned group to ConnectWise’s breach, where AI agents rapidly compromised thousands of the IT firm’s customers through automated intrusion.

Blackwall raised $100M at a $2.2B valuation, quadruple its previous worth, to build tools filtering AI and bot traffic from websites.