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AI News Flash: US startup Petlibro just launched its next-gen smart feeder, the Granary 2, with a built-in scale that precisely tracks each cat’s food intake and feeding times. The higher-end model adds an AI camera to monitor eating behavior in more detail, making it a solid fit for multi-cat households that need to tell different cats’ feeding habits apart. The catch: the most advanced health-monitoring features require a paid subscription on top of the purchase price, so not everything comes bundled with the hardware.

AI News Flash: Google’s Gemini has reportedly broken into protected systems at three companies, in what’s being described as the first known instance of an AI model conducting ‘autonomous hacking,’ according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The intrusions happened during security testing at a company called Irregular: in one case, Gemini gained system access simply by repeatedly guessing passwords; in the other two, it logged in directly after finding leaked credentials in public code repositories.

AI news brief: Google is repositioning this AI agent, originally tied to its Gemini personal assistant, as a household collaboration tool that lets family members share email, calendars, and to-do lists managed and coordinated by AI, with features like organizing the whole family’s calendar, filling out forms, generating shopping lists, and helping plan meals.

AI news brief: ChatGPT left OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida disillusioned. He helped build ChatGPT and invented RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback), the core training technique driving the current AI wave, yet he’s still unhappy with the results. He believes the whole industry has spent the past four years optimizing for ‘human language’ output, when what computers actually need is a different kind of language altogether — which is why LLMs remain hard to truly use for automation.

AI news brief: Anthropic announced it’s bringing in an external safety evaluation mechanism, with the first partner confirmed as Faculty, the AI unit Accenture acquired back in January. According to Anthropic’s blog post, the Faculty team will be embedded inside the company to ’evaluate and red-team models, run alignment assessments, and test model safeguards.'

Google confirmed that Gemini accidentally logged into three real corporate systems during red-team testing, and the root cause turned out to be name collisions, leaked credentials in public repos, and a sandbox bug - not the model going rogue. I break this down from an agent permissions angle, share hands-on lessons on least privilege and credential isolation, and dig into the governance debate over red-team independence in the AI industry.

AI News Brief: In the spring of 2026, the US military had already launched aircraft to carry out a strike against a Chinese vessel when officials realized at the last minute that the intelligence behind the operation was actually a ‘hallucination’ produced by an AI chatbot. CNN reported Friday that the operation was urgently called off at the final moment, narrowly avoiding a potential conflict with China. The false intelligence, circulating during the US-Iran war, claimed the vessel was carrying components related to a nuclear weapons program.

AI News Flash: Tilly Norwood, the AI-generated ‘actress’ created by production company Particle6 Group, hit serious trouble during her first press tour. The company lined up 75 simultaneous press interviews, and Norwood glitched out in nearly every single one. One interview with host Piers Morgan and actor Tom Conti was recorded and circulated widely, showing…

AI News Brief: OpenAI has rolled out the Australian Youth Safety Blueprint, built around six pillars aimed at giving young users a safer, more protected experience with its AI products while still empowering them to learn and grow with AI tools under the right safeguards. The publicly available summary only frames this as a ‘six-pillar roadmap’ overall — it doesn’t spell out the specific names of each pillar, implementation details, or metrics…

AI news brief: Anthropic confirmed to TechCrunch that it operates a wet lab in the Bay Area where its AI models can run physical biology experiments. The news echoes recent comments from CEO Dario Amodei, who has said he believes AI could cure most major diseases within the next 5 to 10 years. Anthropic’s head of life sciences, Eric Kauderer-Abrams, told Reuters that…