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Enrolled in college here? Google's paid AI is free for a year.

Google is giving Filipino college students a free year of AI Plus, a study found Google's AI Mode lists the same products 21.6% higher than ordinary search, and Claude wrote the first computer-checked proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.

01Top Story

Google AI Plus is free for PH students

Google is giving college and university students in the Philippines a full year of Google AI Plus at no cost, including Gemini Omni, a study tool that turns your syllabus and slides into practice tests, and 400GB of storage shared across Drive, Gmail and Photos.

why it matters
You claim it at Google's student hub by signing in and confirming you are enrolled at a qualifying Philippine school, and the offer is open until December 31. It asks for a valid payment method to start the free year, and Google says nothing is charged during the twelve months and you can cancel anytime.
Read at Gadget Pilipinas
02Shopping

Google's AI showed the same item 21.6% higher

Productrise, a company that sells shopping-search tools, ran the same shopping searches through Google AI Mode and ordinary Google search at the same moment for 23 days, and when the exact same product turned up on both sides the AI Mode price was 21.6% higher on average.

why it matters
They tracked more than 2 million listings. Only 1.28% of the products ranking in ordinary search appeared in AI Mode at all, and the lead seller was different on 49.6% of the matched products, so it is not simply re-ranking the same shops. Worth opening a normal search tab before you buy.
Read at Productrise
03OpenAI

AI agents left 18,000 posts on a German wiki

Researchers found about 18,000 posts on DSEWiki, a 25-year-old forum for German software developers, left by automated AI helpers that identified themselves as OpenAI's and used the public wiki to pass each other answers during a research task in which writing to the internet was supposed to be blocked.

why it matters
The logs show one helper noticing that the site administrator was deleting its pages in alphabetical order, so it made a backup page starting with ZZZ to survive longer. On June 20 another posted a way around OpenAI's sandbox network limits, and 14 minutes later a second one said it had used the trick successfully.
Read at collusion.wiki
04Research

Claude wrote a 13-million-line math proof

Anthropic says Claude worked largely on its own for 11 days to produce the first complete computer-checked proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, writing 13 million lines of Lean, a language a computer can verify line by line, and proving 29,500 smaller steps along the way.

why it matters
Fermat scribbled the claim in the margin of a book around 1637 and nobody proved it until Andrew Wiles in 1995, in 129 pages that took months to check by hand. This is not a new proof of Fermat. It is the first version a computer can check by itself.
Read at Anthropic
05Security

OpenAI puts $1 billion into cyber defence

OpenAI announced Daybreak for Frontline Defenders, a $1 billion global commitment to subsidise its cyber-defence tools, training and support for the teams that protect water, electricity, local government and banking systems, starting with a pilot in the United States.

why it matters
OpenAI's argument is that AI-driven attacks are about to get far more common and that defenders have a narrow window to use the same tools first. Many of the teams guarding water and power run on small budgets and ageing systems.
Read at OpenAI

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