# AI News Digest - 2026-06-05

1. Google gave website operators an opt-out toggle in Search Console for AI search features such as AI Overviews and AI Mode, and added new performance reports that separated impressions; the change was prompted by the UK Competition and Markets Authority.

2. Google DeepMind released Gemma 4 12B, an open-source multimodal model that processed text, images, and audio, ran on laptops with 16 GB of RAM, and closely matched the performance of a 26B model while shipping under an Apache 2.0 license for commercial use.

3. Tech leaders including Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Demis Hassabis urged the U.S. government to require screening of synthetic DNA orders after warning that AI systems had begun to outperform PhD-level virologists on laboratory procedures and could coach amateur users, raising biological security concerns.

4. US courts experienced a rise in self-represented filings that judges and a study attributed to AI; courts remained split on whether chatbot-user communications were privileged, and litigation and legislative proposals emerged over liability when chatbots provided legal advice.

5. OpenAI updated ChatGPT's "Dreaming" memory system to assemble coherent narrative user profiles from conversations and reported that the success rate for keeping information current rose from 52.2 percent to 75.1 percent.

# References

1. [https://the-decoder.com/google-lets-sites-opt-out-of-ai-search-results-knowing-most-have-nowhere-else-to-go/](https://the-decoder.com/google-lets-sites-opt-out-of-ai-search-results-knowing-most-have-nowhere-else-to-go/)

[Google lets sites opt out of AI search results, knowing most have nowhere else to go](https://the-decoder.com/google-lets-sites-opt-out-of-ai-search-results-knowing-most-have-nowhere-else-to-go/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/google-deepminds-gemma-4-12b-squeezes-multimodal-ai-onto-a-laptop-with-just-16-gb-of-ram/](https://the-decoder.com/google-deepminds-gemma-4-12b-squeezes-multimodal-ai-onto-a-laptop-with-just-16-gb-of-ram/)

[Google Deepmind's Gemma 4 12B squeezes multimodal AI onto a laptop with just 16 GB of RAM](https://the-decoder.com/google-deepminds-gemma-4-12b-squeezes-multimodal-ai-onto-a-laptop-with-just-16-gb-of-ram/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/ai-can-now-coach-amateur-virologists-and-top-tech-leaders-want-congress-to-act-on-dna-security/](https://the-decoder.com/ai-can-now-coach-amateur-virologists-and-top-tech-leaders-want-congress-to-act-on-dna-security/)

[AI can now coach amateur virologists, and top tech leaders want Congress to act on DNA security](https://the-decoder.com/ai-can-now-coach-amateur-virologists-and-top-tech-leaders-want-congress-to-act-on-dna-security/)

1. [https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/04/1138391/courts-coping-ai-lawsuits/](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/04/1138391/courts-coping-ai-lawsuits/)

[How courts are coping with a flood of AI-generated lawsuits](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/04/1138391/courts-coping-ai-lawsuits/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/chatgpt-now-saves-narrative-dossiers-about-you-sorted-by-work-hobbies-and-travel-preferences/](https://the-decoder.com/chatgpt-now-saves-narrative-dossiers-about-you-sorted-by-work-hobbies-and-travel-preferences/)

[ChatGPT now saves narrative dossiers about you sorted by work, hobbies, and travel preferences](https://the-decoder.com/chatgpt-now-saves-narrative-dossiers-about-you-sorted-by-work-hobbies-and-travel-preferences/)

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