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A security researcher has uncovered a troubling scheme on the ClawHub platform, where thirty skills published by a single author were quietly hijacking AI agents to mine cryptocurrency. No malware, no obvious consent — just cleverly crafted tools that turned other people's AI systems into a coordinated mining swarm. It's a sharp reminder that the open ecosystems powering today's AI agents carry real and underexamined risks.

Shifting to infrastructure, Google has unveiled new network architecture specifically tuned for generative AI workloads — both inference and training. The designs reflect how seriously the company is investing in the physical backbone required to run large models at scale. As AI demand grows, the race to build faster, more efficient interconnects is becoming just as competitive as the model development itself.

And on a lighter note, Google Translate is marking its twentieth birthday with a feature users have been asking for for years — pronunciation practice. Rolling out first on Android in the United States and India for English, Spanish, and Hindi, the tool lets you speak and receive feedback in real time. It's a small but meaningful step toward making language learning genuinely interactive.

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