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A popular open-source AI coding project called GPT-Pilot was compromised on GitHub, with attackers sneaking in a credential-stealing payload dubbed Shai-Hulud. What stopped it? A Python linter called ruff, which flagged the malicious code before it could do serious damage. It's a reminder that supply chain attacks are real, and sometimes your most boring tools are your best defense.
Shifting to a different corner of the AI world, a startup called Niteshift has raised seven million dollars in seed funding with a pointed argument: companies are growing uneasy about being locked into the major AI model providers. Founded by veterans of Datadog, Niteshift is building coding agent tools designed to give enterprises more control over which models they use and how. It's a bet that flexibility will matter more than convenience as AI costs and dependencies become harder to ignore.
And Google's Gemini assistant inside Chrome is continuing its global rollout, now reaching users across Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa. The expansion is incremental but significant, putting an AI layer directly inside the browser for millions of new users who may encounter it as simply part of how the web works.
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