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Google sues Chinese cybercrime network for exploiting Gemini AI in massive scam campaign
Google has filed a lawsuit to dismantle the Outsider Enterprise network that used its Gemini AI to automate scam text messages. The operation ran 9,000 fake websites, registered 1 million fraudulent domains and sent 2.5 million texts in two weeks, scamming hundreds of thousands and causing multi‑million‑dollar losses.
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242 | Inside the Friday AI Hangouts: Real-World Wins, Woes & WTF Moments with AI
Is AI supposed to make things easier… so why does it feel like chaos? You’re not alone. In this special episode of Leveraging AI, we invite you into the room where the real conversations happen — our live, unfiltered Friday AI Hangouts. Hear real business people share what’s working, what’s breaking, and what’s making them want to throw their laptops across the room. 💡 Whether you’re a solopreneur, in a scaling team, or inside a major enterprise — these discussions will sound very familiar. One takeaway? The learning curve is real. But the gold is in the room. 🎯 In this session, you'll discover: Why AI Projects are replacing Custom GPTs — and when you shouldn’t switch How business pros are using Claude skills, Comet browser, and Make.com to automate faster The difference between frustration and progress when implementing agents What goes wrong when AI makes up your part numbers (yes, really) How to choose between N8N, Make, and Zapier — without wasting weeks The one piece of advice for managing large AI-driven data systems Real talk: Why AI tools still fail — and how to debug smarter, not harder This episode features you — the voices of our global AI business community. Want to be in the next one? Join our next Friday AI Hangout, open to all. 👉 Register here (https://services.multiplai.ai/events0) — it’s free, it’s fun, and it’s the realest AI talk you'll find anywhere. About Leveraging AI The Ultimate AI Course for Business People: https://multiplai.ai/ai-course/ YouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Multiplai_AI/ Connect with Isar Meitis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isarmeitis/ Join our Live Sessions, AI Hangouts and newsletter: https://services.multiplai.ai/events If you’ve enjoyed or benefited from some of the insights of this episode, leave us a five-star review on your favorite podcast platform, and let us know what you learned, found helpful, or liked most about this show!
UK AI Trust Gap: 33% Trust, Only 8% Ready
We’re living through a moment where AI confidence is soaring, but the foundations needed to support that confidence are still worryingly uneven. I shared my views with DIGIT last week about new IDC findings, and one insight in particular has...
Top 10 AI Chatbot Do's and Don’ts to Help You Get the Most Out of ChatGPT, Gemini, and More
The article outlines ten practical do’s and don’ts for using AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, emphasizing safe and productive applications. It recommends using chatbots for brainstorming, proofreading, tutoring, code generation, and entertainment while warning against cheating, accepting...
Looking at Retail Challenges From a Data Perspective - with Nick Masca of Marks and Spencer
In this episode, Nick Masca, Head of Data Science for Growth & Personalisation at Marks & Spencer, discusses the data‑driven challenges retail and e‑commerce leaders face, emphasizing change‑management over classic digital transformation. He highlights obstacles in applying data tools to...
Prepare for 2026: AI, Cybersecurity, ESG, Skills, Growth
5 Business Trends Every Company Must Prepare for in 2026 In 2026, Businesses will face major shifts driven by #AIagents , #AI -enabled products, #cybersecurity pressure, #ESG realignment and a growing focus on #AIskills . Companies that prepare for these...
Google Antigravity Introduces Agent-First Architecture for Asynchronous, Verifiable Coding Workflows
Google has launched Antigravity, an agent‑first coding platform that lets development teams build and run autonomous coding agents powered by Gemini 3 and other leading LLMs such as Anthropic’s Sonnet 4.5 and open‑source GPT models. The service is now in public preview...
Jeff Bezos Raises $6.2B As Co-CEO of New AI Start-Up
The episode examines Jeff Bezos’s surprising return to an executive role as co‑CEO of the new AI venture Project Prometheus, highlighting how his involvement signals a major shift in the AI startup landscape. Hosts discuss the strategic implications for both...
Microsoft’s Agent 365 Shifts AI Agents From Sandbox Tools to Enterprise-Grade Infrastructure
Microsoft unveiled Agent 365 at its Ignite conference, positioning it as a unified control plane that delivers observability, governance, and security for AI agents across the enterprise. The platform supports both Microsoft‑built and third‑party agents—such as those from Adobe, Databricks,...
Insiders Claim OpenAI Buried Under Microsoft Compute Fees
The episode reveals an insider leak suggesting OpenAI’s operating costs are being eclipsed by Microsoft’s compute fees, with GPU demand driving expenses sharply upward. Hosts discuss how these rising bills could strain budgets and potentially force OpenAI to renegotiate terms...
A16z-Backed Super PAC Is Targeting Alex Bores, Sponsor of New York’s AI Safety Bill — He Says Bring It On
A super PAC called Leading the Future, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI President Greg Brockman and other tech leaders, has pledged over $100 million to oppose New York Assembly member Alex Bores, the chief sponsor of the state’s bipartisan RAISE Act that...
Video-Trained World Models Will Accelerate Robot Intelligence
VLA's are like LLMs, but trained off of videos. I call them world models, because I don't like acronyms, but either way, they mean robots are getting smarter fast. The researchers I hung out with last week say that robots...
Reading with LLMs Deepens Understanding, Shifts Writing Focus
I’m starting to get into a habit of reading everything (blogs, articles, book chapters,…) with LLMs. Usually pass 1 is manual, then pass 2 “explain/summarize”, pass 3 Q&A. I usually end up with a better/deeper understanding than if I moved...
Google Is Fighting the Defamation Battle Meta Caved On
Google has moved to dismiss a $15 million defamation lawsuit filed by anti‑corporate diversity activist Robby Starbuck, who alleges the company’s AI falsely linked him to sexual‑assault accusations and white‑nationalist ties. Starbuck previously sued Meta over AI‑generated claims that he participated...
Empowering Clinicians with Trusted Evidence and Responsible AI
As students navigate information overload in clinical settings, we empower educators and learners with trusted, evidence-based resources and responsible AI. https://t.co/5EVW6ZkJ8P #healthcare #clinicians #Nurses #AI #Elsevier
Prompt Hacks Turn ChatGPT Into $500/Hr Strategist
This guy literally made ChatGPT stop giving him generic advice and it's like having a $500/hr strategist https://t.co/xPZ4dNV2A9
How ChatGPT Works: A Guide to Its Interface on Mobile and Web
The guide walks users through the ChatGPT interface on both mobile and web, detailing how to access account settings, upgrade to Plus, and connect services like Gmail. It explains where to find chat history, how to enable temporary chats, and...
When AI and Humans Hallucinate Together: Emerging Psychosis Risk
AI-induced #psychosis: the danger of humans and machines hallucinating together! https://t.co/e59cn6rF2k #hallucination #artificial_intelligence #AI
AI “Grok” Chooses Next Startup Interviews
My first reader now is Grok. (It watches my videos and reads my posts and decides whether to distribute them to you). So which startups does Grok want me to interview next? Answer: https://t.co/LPuhKb4Iet Thanks Grok, working on this list!
OpenAI Is Finally Letting Employees Donate Their Equity to Charity
OpenAI announced it will finally let current and former employees donate eligible equity to charity, ending an 18‑month delay. The program could enable staff with six‑figure equity grants from 2019 to contribute millions, though a short decision window and advisory...
AI Cost Plummets 300× in One Year
The rate reduction in price per unit of intelligence has been thing I've most consistently underestimated the past couple of years. 300x in a year is nuts!
Jeff Bezos Co-Leads $6.2B AI Startup Launch
Jeff Bezos Launching $6.2 Billion AI Startup He Will Co-Lead https://t.co/7MFq84cVH0 #startupstories #StartupLife #Startups #AI #artificial_intelligence @altiamkabir @codewithimanshu @Eli_Krumova @JagersbergKnut
Google Updates Its Weather Forecasts with a New AI Model
Google unveiled WeatherNext 2, an AI‑powered weather forecasting model that is eight times faster and more accurate than its predecessor, achieving 99.9% accuracy on variables such as temperature and wind. The model uses a Functional Generative Network to generate hundreds...
KlingAI Black Friday: 50% Off Turbo Upgrade
KlingAI is rad. Their Black Friday offer dropped with 50% OFF on all plans. + the upgraded @Kling_ai 2.5 Turbo Start and End frames give you clearer scene control + smoother creative flow 🔥 What I LOVE about Kling: → Easy to setup → Flexible →...
New Grok to Power X and Humanless Tesla Robotaxi
New Grok. Less slop. This is important because this new model will be running the algorithm here on X soon. Or at least a lightweight version therein. And it will be running so many other things, particularly Tesla's Robotaxi network....
The Internet of AI Agents Is the Future. In Conversation with Vijoy Pandey
In this episode, host Jason Stoughton talks with Vijoy Pandey about the emerging "Internet of AI Agents," exploring how interoperable agents can break down siloed systems and enable seamless collaboration across the tech ecosystem. Pandey draws on his experience at...
Success Metrics, Not Plug‑and‑Play, Drive AI Projects
Leaders are discovering the hard way that “plug-and-play AI” is mostly a myth. The tech may look polished, but the real work begins where the glossy demo ends. This new episode of AI in Action breaks down why so many...
Stop Using AI to Write Your Resume and Cover Letter
Job seekers are hurting themselves by using AI mindlessly. @alliekmiller echoes what other HR people are telling me. Don't use AI to write your cover letter or your resume. They have tools that can tell when you are using AI...
The AI Scientist That Does 6 Months of Work in a Day
The episode examines Kosmos, an AI "scientist" that claims to compress six months of research into a single day, processing thousands of papers, generating massive codebases, and delivering validated findings in fields like neuroscience, genetics, materials science, and Alzheimer’s research....
Open, Safe, Factual LLMs Are Essential for AI Safety
What is the state of the art of AI safety? Very interesting talk by XXXXX at @mbzuai (the first only-AI university in the world in Abu Dhabi) that I recorded last week by professor @preslav_nakov. This goes into depth on...
Prepare Your Workforce For An Agentic Future With An Agent Experience Program
The episode explains that integrating AI agents into the workforce creates significant organizational disruption, with most costs tied to human change‑management rather than technology. It introduces the concept of an Agent Experience (AX) program and outlines five essential skills—knowledge curation,...
Samsung's "The Wall" Is the Biggest LED Display You Can Get for Your Office or Workplace - and It's Just...
Samsung has launched an upgraded version of its The Wall MPF large‑format LED display for enterprise use, offering up to 1,000 nits of brightness, Black Seal Technology+ for higher contrast, and AI‑driven NQM Gen2 processing that upscales lower‑resolution content toward 8K. The...
AI‑Powered Life Timeline Guides Personal Growth Decisions
Cannot tell if this Claude Project use case is brilliant or unsettling. Just chatted with someone who built a Claude Project with an entire timeline of their life and how they felt at each stage. Like "1972 - born in Atlanta, loved...
Scaling AI Requires Workflow Redesign and Leadership Commitment
It’s 2025 and 88% of companies are using AI, but only 1/3 are actually scaling it. McKinsey & Company 's new 2025 State of AI report just dropped, and after THREE YEARS of ChatGPT, companies are still stuck in pilot...
Microsoft Unveils Its First "AI Superfactory" - Here's What the Future of Computing Will Really Look Like
Microsoft unveiled its first AI superfactory, linking large AI datacenters in Wisconsin and Atlanta via a dedicated fiber network that acts as a virtual supercomputer for massive model training. The facilities pack GPUs densely across two floors, employ Nvidia Blackwell...
Your Online Reservations Are Telling Restaurants All About You
OpenTable is rolling out an AI‑assisted tagging feature that surfaces diners’ habits—such as preferred drinks, spending level, review activity, and likelihood of cancellations—to restaurant staff via its reservation and table‑management platform. The tags are generated from POS data collected across...
Neo Robot Sounds Like the Answer to Our Home Chore prayers...but Also a Potential Privacy Nightmare
TechRadar AI Week reports that 1X’s Neo Beta, a $20,000 humanoid home robot capable of remote tele‑operation for AI training, is entering limited consumer trials. While the robot promises to automate chores, its ability to stream real‑time video and collect...
Mercor Brings in $350M, Surges to $10B Valuation
The episode dissects Mercor’s recent $350 million funding round that propelled its valuation to $10 billion, highlighting a strategic pivot toward AI annotation services and side‑hustle opportunities. It examines the company’s revenue growth hurdles, heavy reliance on a few key customers, and...
Inside the Atlas Vs. Comet AI Browser Clash
In this 10‑minute episode the hosts dissect the debut of two AI‑powered browsers, Atlas and Comet, highlighting how each reimagines web navigation with built‑in large‑language‑model assistance. They compare core features—Atlas’s deep integration with productivity tools versus Comet’s focus on real‑time...
Adobe Launches Smart AI Tools for Effortless Editing
The episode introduces Adobe’s new suite of AI-powered editing tools that automate routine tasks, streamline workflows, and enhance creative output, positioning Adobe as a renewed contender for creative professionals. It highlights how features like auto‑color correction, intelligent cut detection, and...
Tesla Roadster Delays Ignite Altman–Musk Clash
The episode examines the heated social‑media exchange between Elon Musk and Sam Altman sparked by Altman's comment on the perpetual delay of the Tesla Roadster, highlighting how the feud reflects broader tensions in the tech world. It also delves into...
How ChatGPT Can Help You Look After Your Wellbeing
TechRadar’s AI Week 2025 piece outlines how ChatGPT is being used as a low‑pressure companion for mental‑wellness, from prompting daily journaling and reminding users of short meditation or breathing exercises to acting as a sounding board between therapy sessions. The...
AI Overuse Makes Candidates Sound Robotic, Hurts Hiring
I’m seeing candidates with incredible work backgrounds destroying their chances at getting hired because they sound like mindless robots. Before you use AI in your job applications and interviews (which I’m largely against unless it’s edits or asked for), consider...
AI-Powered Tool Turns Research Into Ready-Made Listicles
started working on a deep research agent to build nice lists for me and one thing led to another... introducing researchoor dot com an ai powered social listicle builder https://t.co/RoAEj1jDYE
Axios Chief Technology Correspondent Ina Fried on AI and This Moment in Technology
In this episode, Axios Chief Technology Correspondent Ina Fried explores how the current AI boom mirrors past technological revolutions, discussing its disruptive impact on jobs and her own journalism workflow. She explains the challenges of integrating AI into human processes...
AI-Driven Gene Editors Could Cure Countless Genomic Diseases
ai-first design of gene editors has so much potential when you consider that so so many diseases are the result of genomic aberrations
Switched to Grok Imagine, Instantly Created Animated LLM Graphic
Goodbye Midjourney, I'm with Grok Imagine now. Needed a graphic with an abstract representation of an LLM. Got a perfect one in one shot. Then was asked if I want to animate. Got this, complete with sound: https://t.co/GHIRLBdBlQ
Google’s AI Mode Can Now Help You Visualize Your Travel Plans
Google has integrated travel planning into its AI Mode via the Canvas workspace, allowing users to describe a trip and receive a detailed itinerary with flight and hotel options, photos, and reviews, which can be refined through follow‑up queries. The...
Small Interactions Reveal Team Values, AI Amplifies Them
You can measure a team’s values in the smallest interactions. The wording. The timing. The defaults. AI just amplifies those choices.
AI Exposes Fake Expertise, Rewards Real Thinking
The myth is that AI replaces expertise. The truth is that it punishes fake expertise. It reveals who was guessing and who was actually thinking.
Oracle Hit Hard in Wall Street’s Tech Sell-Off over Its Huge AI Bet
Oracle’s shares have plunged 25% in a month, erasing over $250 billion of market value, as the company’s aggressive AI‑centric capital spending and debt buildup alarm investors. The software giant pledged to spend hundreds of billions on chips and data‑centers to...