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Threat actors seed the web with malicious links and data, then optimize that content so ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews surface it in answers. The campaign pairs mass disinformation with phishing.

A Reddit r/LocalLLaMA post says MiMo-V3 is getting a new architecture, with its core component HySparse2 released today alongside an arXiv paper (2609.26368).

At its Made on YouTube event, YouTube expanded its 2025 AI creator dashboard with a background agent that scans a creator's back catalog for videos gaining new relevance and suggests new thumbnails or titles. It also generates full thumbnails and titles from an uploaded video and drafts brand pitches using channel demographic data.

YouTube's custom feeds let users describe the videos they want in a prompt box, and Google's Gemini builds a personalized feed pinned to a new tab on the home page. The feature follows similar AI feed-building tools from Bluesky's Attie, Threads, Instagram, X, and Spotify.

Anthropic's forward deployed engineers outline six steps for organizing AI-driven modernization of critical systems, from defining the end state to staging the run. The post notes code modernizations once scoped as multi-year efforts can now finish in months or weeks, shifting the bottleneck from writing changes to mobilizing the organization around them.

Australia's corporate watchdog is strengthening safeguards for automated and AI-enabled trading to align its rules with international standards. The regulator is led by its securities-market oversight arm.

Meta's Aditya Gautam describes catching brief content shifts — a video that is about sports for six seconds then turns political for half a second — across 100M+ videos. His second problem is unoriginal content, which AI tools make trivial to produce and which corrodes attribution.