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Google Images turns twenty-five this week, and the search giant is marking the milestone with a visual refresh of one of its most-used products. Since its launch in two thousand one, the image search tool has become a quiet cornerstone of how billions of people navigate the web, and the redesign signals Google still sees it as worth investing in.
Shifting to a story with sharper edges — researchers have published details on Mako, an agentic system designed to autonomously exploit vulnerabilities on the web. The paper describes it as self-evolving, meaning it adapts its own attack strategies over time. That raises real questions about how quickly offensive AI capabilities are outpacing the defenses built to stop them.
And in the media business, the Writers Guild of America is now suing to block the proposed merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery. The concern is straightforward — one billionaire family controlling roughly a third of American entertainment creates leverage that squeezes out the people who actually make the content. Courts will decide whether that argument holds.
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