# AI News Digest - 2026-05-13

1. Google said it stopped a planned mass cyberattack after its Threat Intelligence Group identified the first known case of an attacker using AI to discover and weaponize a zero-day vulnerability, and said state-backed actors from China, North Korea, and Russia were also using AI to find vulnerabilities and disguise malware code.

2. Isomorphic Labs raised $2.1 billion in a Series B round led by Thrive Capital to scale its AI drug-discovery platform IsoDDE and advance drug candidates toward clinical trials.

3. Google introduced Gemini Intelligence on Android, which automated multi-step tasks, summarized web content, filled forms, and converted spoken thoughts into polished text messages while integrating with Autofill, Chrome, and Gboard.

4. Anthropic launched twelve new Claude Cowork plugins for legal work, connecting its Claude chatbot to services including Thomson Reuters' CoCounsel Legal and Harvey and covering contract law, employment law, and litigation use cases.

5. Daron Acemoglu published an analysis stating that agentic AI was more likely to augment specific tasks than replace whole jobs, highlighted the growing hiring of economists by AI companies, and emphasized the need for usable AI applications to measure broader economic impact.

# References

1. [https://the-decoder.com/google-says-it-stopped-a-mass-cyberattack-after-ai-was-used-to-discover-a-zero-day-exploit/](https://the-decoder.com/google-says-it-stopped-a-mass-cyberattack-after-ai-was-used-to-discover-a-zero-day-exploit/)

[Google says it stopped a mass cyberattack after AI was used to discover a zero-day exploit](https://the-decoder.com/google-says-it-stopped-a-mass-cyberattack-after-ai-was-used-to-discover-a-zero-day-exploit/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/alphabets-isomorphic-labs-raises-2-1-billion-to-scale-ai-drug-discovery-toward-clinical-trials/](https://the-decoder.com/alphabets-isomorphic-labs-raises-2-1-billion-to-scale-ai-drug-discovery-toward-clinical-trials/)

[Alphabet's Isomorphic Labs raises $2.1 billion to scale AI drug discovery toward clinical trials](https://the-decoder.com/alphabets-isomorphic-labs-raises-2-1-billion-to-scale-ai-drug-discovery-toward-clinical-trials/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/gemini-intelligence-makes-autofill-chrome-and-gboard-on-android-smarter/](https://the-decoder.com/gemini-intelligence-makes-autofill-chrome-and-gboard-on-android-smarter/)

[Android gets AI agents that book trips, fill forms, and clean up your texts](https://the-decoder.com/gemini-intelligence-makes-autofill-chrome-and-gboard-on-android-smarter/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-expands-legal-ai-offerings-with-new-cowork-plugins/](https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-expands-legal-ai-offerings-with-new-cowork-plugins/)

[Anthropic expands legal AI offerings with new Claude Cowork plugins](https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-expands-legal-ai-offerings-with-new-cowork-plugins/)

1. [https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/11/1137090/three-things-in-ai-to-watch-according-to-a-nobel-winning-economist/](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/11/1137090/three-things-in-ai-to-watch-according-to-a-nobel-winning-economist/)

[Three things in AI to watch, according to a Nobel-winning economist](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/11/1137090/three-things-in-ai-to-watch-according-to-a-nobel-winning-economist/)

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