TerraSign inReddit's shares fell more than 20 percent after an earnings report that beat expectations on most basic financials. Chief executive Steve Huffman called search referrals "choppy" and said Google's AI Overviews have yet to match what ten blue links delivered.
Google briefly let anyone rewrite Google Earth's satellite imagery with its Nano Banana 2 image generator, then withdrew the feature within a day. Independent investigators had already shown how quickly it produced convincing fake disasters over real places.
In a week-long experiment, 46 percent of test subjects downloaded an app an AI chatbot asked them to try, against 18 percent for a human scammer. Subjects also rated the bot more trustworthy than the person.
DeepSeek has published DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 on Hugging Face under an MIT licence, free for anyone to download and run. On the company's own tests it scores above DeepSeek's bigger Pro preview, and within half a point of Opus-4.8 on one test while trailing badly on others.
Microsoft says Microsoft 365 Copilot has passed 30 million paid seats, with quarterly net additions more than doubling. It argues the measure that matters next is not licences sold but work redesigned, and points to customers rebuilding whole processes around AI.
The South China Morning Post reports that Chinese firm MiniMax has launched H3, a video generation model whose full internals it plans to publish for free download within days. Its earlier Hailuo video models were all closed.
OpenAI says an internal version of Astra, its next major model, produced new results on ten long-standing problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science. Humans then prepared the write-ups, and the model formalised each argument in Lean.