AMD reached a definitive agreement to buy the spatial-intelligence lab in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2 billion, expected to close by end of 2026 pending regulatory approval. Fei-Fei Li will join AMD as EVP and chief scientist, reporting to Lisa Su.
Open-source command line tool RemoveMacAI turns off Siri, Writing Tools, Genmoji, Image Playground, the ChatGPT extension and summaries, then deletes Apple's on-disk foundation models and blocks re-download. macOS 27 removed the single Settings toggle, leaving models on disk; one MacBook Air listed Apple Intelligence at 35.05GB.
TypeSafe launched Jev, a decision-model guardrail that runs locally on a laptop and nearly matched a 35B-parameter model in Red Hat's guardrail benchmark. It offers zero-shot policy flexibility without open-ended generation costs.
Researcher Syed Anas Mohiuddin found vulnerabilities in agents from Google, JP Morgan Chase, Weaviate, Rapid7, and French and US government agencies. The attacks exploit MCP trust gaps so a compromised agent passes malicious instructions to other internal agents, often leading to server-side request forgery.
Google Research published a workshop report from the Contextual Agent Privacy and Security (CAPS) workshop, held in late 2025 in New York City, with more than 50 academic and industry leaders. It outlines open research directions at system, model, user, and ecosystem levels, drawing on Contextual Integrity theory.
Podcast interview with California Sen. Adam Schiff, who sits on committees overseeing intellectual property, antitrust, and privacy, covers how Congress might regulate AI after missing its chance on social media. He supports creating a new agency to regulate AI, and the conversation addresses how Loper Bright's overturning of Chevron deference could tie new rules up in litigation.