We’re sending TPUs to space (yes, really). After years of research, we’re launching a satellite to evaluate if and how Google Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) hold up in orbit. The test mission, as part of our latest moonshot — Project Suncatcher — is designed to gather data exploring how we can one day host machine learning infrastructure in space.

We have discovered a massive, ongoing criminal exploitation campaign using Cairn, an autonomous penetration-testing harness, and other AI agents to target hundreds of organizations and successfully breach and impact tens of them (at least). The image below shows just a few days of activity, with up to 25 organizations being attacked simultaneously at the peak. our intreim report: gambit.security/blog-posts/a…

A reminder that this stunning place was built by the King of France (not the Roman Catholic Church) to house 22 relics he bought after the Venetians and French sacked Constantinople, executed the Roman emperor, and sold off his relic collection for cash.

Sleeping while listening to bursts of pink noise – background sounds akin to gentle radio static – might enhance the clearance of waste products that are linked to conditions like Alzheimer’s disease. ow.ly/iW5N50ZLShe

Cluster of cyberattacks targeting maritime infrastructure, including vessels and ports. Two tankers suffered onboard network compromises, an LNG carrier sailing to Europe experienced suspected cyberattack affecting control system. A major Asian container terminal halted operations after a cyber incident. US agencies are tracking threats involving ~20 ships. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Scientists pushed a single SARS2 ORF3a protein into the neurons of mice. Within two months the mice were dead - weight loss, loss of movement, dying nerve cells. A new peer-reviewed paper works out how that one protein kills. It doesn't even need to infect the cell to do it🧵

Incredible photos by @manuelorbegozo ! Actual mountain lions! (Googlers IYKYK!)

Wonder if they sell to the highest bidder. 🤔

We didn't know the mechanism for why relapse occurs in multiple sclerosis. @NatureMedicine today: Reactivation of the Epstein-Barr virus and priming of the immune response nature.com/articles/s41591-0…

Wow…

For 20+ years @ShaneLegg and I've discussed AGI’s potential impact on the economy, science & society. With the DeepMind Institute, we're expanding interdisciplinary research on key questions for the AI era. We hope it spurs the discussions needed to get the next steps right: deepmind.google/institute

China can now legally seize your plane, your ship, your land, the moment it decides your country threatens its "development interests." That phrase means whatever Beijing wants it to. The revised National Defense Mobilization Law takes effect October 1st. Once Beijing declares its sovereignty, unity, or "development interests" threatened, it can shift civilian resources entirely to defense. That's not limited to obvious military assets. Commercial planes. Ships. Private land. Satellite communications. Cybersecurity systems. Drone production. All of it goes straight to the PLA. This isn't theoretical. China already ran a mobilization exercise on this exact scale in Guangdong province back in 2022. That wasn't a drill for its own sake. It was the blueprint for this law. And this doesn't require China deciding to go to war. It requires Xi ordering the PLA to be ready for one, which he's already done, whether or not the order to actually fight ever comes. Nobody builds the legal machinery to seize an entire country's ships, land, and satellites for a war they're not seriously preparing to fight. defensenews.com/global/asia-…

Important work.

In July we launched the first edition of our AI & Economy ATLAS, a deep dive into how people are using Google’s AI products and tools at work and in day-to-day life. Now we’re making ATLAS’s millions of global data points easier to explore. blog.google/innovation-and-a…

Rumor: Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei (任正非) and his family have fled China ahead of new regulations that begin Sept. 15 and would restrict entry and exit to China, media report, adding some reports allege he escaped China by sea from the Dapeng Peninsula. Others say there is a heavy police presence at Huawei’s headquarters. Huawei has so far made no official statement. 1/3 #huawei

Earthquake swarm in the Los Angeles basin...

‼️ BREAKING: Internal OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems, the package manager for Ruby. Over 2,000 malicious packages went up in two days. OpenAI says it doesn't know why the agents did any of this. RubyGems shut off new sign-ups for four days to stop it, and a member of its security team called it a major malicious attack. The documentation build was how they got in, publish a gem, request docs, and RubyDoc runs a script from the package while building it. Payload files were named hack.rb, evil.rb and exploit.rb, with comments like "# malicious probe" left in. What they used it for is the odd part. The agents scraped council meeting agendas from three south London boroughs (publicly available) and republished them as new gems. Security firms tracking the campaign said the same thing: nobody could work out the point, because the data was already public. At least six packages also reached for other users' API keys through a CDN caching flaw that wasn't publicly discovered until July. OpenAI has acknowledged the attacks started in May.

BREAKING: Terry Liu, the Chinese national arrested this week in Maine, has been charged with illegally modifying the hardware of Customs and Border Patrol computers at the Maine-Canada border. Liu, who described himself as a native of Guangzhou, China, was caught on camera breaking into CBP computers and replacing processors and memory devices before re-inserting them into government networks. More details to come...

26 LLM routers are secretly injecting malicious tool calls and stealing creds. One drained our client $500k wallet. We also managed to poison routers to forward traffic to us. Within several hours, we can directly take over ~400 hosts. Check our paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.08407

‼️ BREAKING: Chinese labs DeepSeek and Moonshot were quietly relaying customer prompts to Claude through fraudulent accounts. Users thought they were using Chinese AI, but were actually getting answers from Claude. Their customers' sensitive data now is in Anthropic's hands. One user, who is tied to China's military, asked Kimi whether a person tracked across hundreds of CCTV cameras in Chengdu was behaving abnormally. DeepSeek passed along live credentials for a Russian government database, shared by an IT operator handling data from a Defense Ministry-linked agency. The two Chinese labs relayed customer prompts to Claude through fraudulent accounts and saved the exchanges to train their own models. Moonshot forwarded almost 300,000 customer requests in a single ten-day stretch. DeepSeek flagged users running its models inside coding tools like Claude Code and OpenCode, then routed some of them to Opus.