Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users - Ars Technica

Google published proof-of-concept exploit code for an unfixed vulnerability in the Browser Fetch API affecting Chrome, Edge, and all Chromium-based browsers — code that lets an attacker monitor browsing activity and use targeted browsers as proxies. The flaw was reported in late 2022 by independent researcher Lyra Rebane and rated S1 severity internally, yet remains unpatched.

Lyra Rebane

Google’s SynthID AI watermarking tech is being adopted by OpenAI, Nvidia, and more - Ars Technica

Google's SynthID watermarking standard — embedded invisibly in pixels, video frames, and audio waveforms — is now being adopted by OpenAI and Nvidia, alongside the C2PA metadata standard. The piece also notes the core limitation: SynthID only marks content from models that implement it, leaving the majority of AI images on the internet uncovered.

SpaceX IPO Filing Reveals Anthropic Is Paying $15 Billion a Year to Access Its Data Centers - WIRED

Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25 billion per month — $15 billion annually — for GPU access at the Colossus data centers in Tennessee and Mississippi, revealed in SpaceX's S-1 IPO filing. The number puts a hard dollar figure on compute as the defining bottleneck in frontier AI development.

Literary Prizewinners Are Facing AI Allegations. It Feels Like the New Normal - WIRED

Three of five regional winners of the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize are suspected of using AI to write their entries, exposing how ill-equipped literary institutions are to adjudicate these claims fairly. Granta's editor flagged that AI-detection tools may themselves carry bias against the very writers — many from Africa, Asia, and the Pacific — most likely to be falsely accused.

Salesforce India workforce tops 17,000 - Tech in Asia

Salesforce's India workforce crossed 17,000 in 2026, with regional revenue up 47% to $1.5 billion, driven by Indian enterprises moving from AI pilots to full deployments of its Agentforce agentic systems. The company is also building its first India Salesforce Tower in Bengaluru.

Arundhati Bhattacharya · Salesforce South Asia

Meta Employees Are Scrambling to Use Up Benefits Ahead of Layoffs - WIRED

On the eve of 8,000 Meta layoffs — roughly 10% of its workforce — employees are draining perks budgets and abandoning work in offices where, per WIRED's dozen-plus interviews, 'everyone is unhappy.' The round draws heightened attention because it arrives amid broad public anxiety that AI is displacing the very jobs it was meant to augment.