AI spam buried a real $200,000 hole in your Mac.
Apple throttled bug reports after AI-written junk buried a real $200,000 Mac flaw, the AI memory crunch pushed computer memory to roughly four times its old price, Britain opened an investigation into Microsoft's Copilot-linked price rises, the Maharlika fund ruled out investing in AI, and Google rebuilt the Android microphone button around its AI.
AI spam buried a $200,000 Mac flaw
Apple has started capping how many bug reports a researcher can send after a flood of AI-written fake ones jammed the queue, and an Italian startup that used ChatGPT to find a real Mac flaw handing attackers full control of a machine was locked out before it could report it, a hole its finders value at up to $200,000.
AI ate the memory. Laptops cost more.
Chipmakers have swung production toward the memory that AI systems need, so ordinary computer memory has gone scarce and 16 gigabytes that used to sell for about $45 now goes for roughly $190 in Hong Kong shops.
The UK is probing Microsoft's price bump
Britain's competition watchdog is investigating whether Microsoft misled customers by adding Copilot, its AI helper, to Microsoft 365 for free and then moving them onto a more expensive plan at renewal unless they switched or cancelled.
The PH wealth fund said no to AI
Maharlika, the Philippine sovereign wealth fund, will not put money directly into AI companies or AI stocks: asked whether it would, chief executive Rafael Consing Jr. said the answer is no, citing a lack of both capital and expertise to pick winners.
Google's mic button just got smarter
Google rebuilt the microphone button on the Android home screen so one tap now switches between plain search, AI Mode, a live camera-and-voice mode and song recognition, instead of only typing out what you say.