The White House has issued an executive order requiring agencies like the Pentagon and CISA to strengthen cyber defense with AI tools within 30 days. AI developers can voluntarily submit models for security testing, but the order explicitly rules out mandatory approval. Given recent government pressure on AI companies, how voluntary this cooperation really is remains an open question.

For the first time, Google is giving website operators an opt-out toggle in Search Console for AI search features like AI Overviews and AI Mode, which together already reach more than 3.5 billion monthly users. New performance reports break out impressions separately. The move was prompted by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which sees website operators at a severe disadvantage.

Google Deepmind's Gemma 4 12B is an open-source model that processes text, images, and audio natively and runs on laptops with just 16 GB of RAM. It nearly matches the twice-as-large 26B model in benchmarks and ships under an Apache 2.0 license for commercial use.

At Build 2026, Microsoft announced seven new AI models developed in-house, including its first reasoning model. The company also introduced a new tuning method and an autonomous background agent.

OpenAI is expanding Codex with role-specific plugins for data analysis, sales, and investment banking. Five million people use the tool each week, and one in five isn't a developer, the company says. That non-developer group is growing three times faster than the developer base, a sign that OpenAI is positioning Codex as an all-purpose work app.