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GitHub Copilot, an AI coding tool, has reached 20 million all-time users. The tool is used by 90% of the Fortune 100 and has seen 75% growth in enterprise customers. GitHub Copilot is a major player in the AI coding market, competing with other tools like Cursor.

Meta will more than double its spend on AI infrastructure, including data centers and servers, to support its AI ambitions, with plans to invest $66-72 billion in 2025 and a similar amount in 2026. The company is building multiple AI superclusters, including Prometheus and Hyperion, and expects to attract external financing for its data center projects.

Meta is investing tens of billions of dollars in AI superintelligence, with plans to build massive data centers and deploy multi-gigawatt GPUs. CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes this will lead to personal superintelligence that can help individuals achieve their goals.

Mark Zuckerberg shared his vision for the future of AI, promising personalized super-smart AI for everyone. He believes that superintelligence, also known as artificial general intelligence (AGI), is now in sight and will be a tool for personal empowerment, not a force focused on replacing large swaths of society. Zuckerberg also expressed his bullish stance on smart glasses, predicting they will become humanity's primary computing devices.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company's plan to build self-improving, superintelligent AI models that can learn with minimal human input. The new research lab, Meta Superintelligence Labs, will focus on developing AI models that can improve themselves, with implications for the company's products and operations. Meta is also investing in smartglasses, which Zuckerberg believes will be the ideal form factor for AI.

A new report finds that AI-powered vCISO services are in high demand, with 79% of providers reporting high demand among SMBs. The report also notes that AI is being used to automate and enhance vCISO services, resulting in a 68% reduction in workload. This shift is expected to continue, with 74% of remaining providers planning to launch vCISO services by the end of 2025.

A total of 396 SharePoint systems have been compromised globally due to the exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability, with the US being the most affected country. The vulnerability, known as ToolShell, has been attributed to China-linked actors, but other threat actors are also expected to take advantage of it. Organizations are advised to assume breach, verify patching, and conduct thorough threat hunting.

The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) has published new guidance for securing agentic AI applications powered by large language models. The guidance covers security across the full agentic AI development and deployment lifecycle, including securing agentic architectures, design and development security, enhanced security actions, and supply chain security.

UK organisations using AI-enabled security solutions saw a decrease in data breach costs, with an average cost of £3.11m per annum, compared to £3.78m for those without AI-enabled security. The use of AI and automation also led to faster identification and containment of breaches.

Microsoft's Q4 revenue exceeded expectations, driven by cloud and AI growth. Azure revenue reached $75 billion, up 34% from last year. The company's Intelligent Cloud group delivered revenue of $29.9 billion, up 26%. Microsoft's stock price rose 8% after the earnings report, pushing its market capitalization beyond $4 trillion.

Aurora's autonomous trucks are now operating at night, a significant milestone. The company has validated its ability to navigate highways and roads in the dark, allowing for longer distances and more efficient routes. Next, Aurora is working to validate its trucks' ability to operate in rain, a crucial step towards reaching profitability. With plans to scale its road network and fleet, Aurora aims to have tens of driverless trucks on public roads by the end of the year and hundreds by 2026.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes people without AI glasses will be at a disadvantage in the future. He thinks glasses will be the primary way users interact with AI, providing a cognitive advantage. Meta has been building smart glasses, including Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta, which have seen significant revenue growth.

PlayerZero, a startup founded by Animesh Koratana, has raised $15 million to develop an AI-powered solution that prevents AI agents from shipping buggy code. The company's technology trains models to deeply understand code bases and fix problems before they are put into production. This solution is crucial as AI-generated code can produce bugs and hallucinations, which can be difficult to detect and fix. PlayerZero's tech is already being used by several large enterprises, including Zuora, to watchdog their code and prevent bugs.

GenAI apps saw significant growth in H1 2025, with 1.7 billion downloads and $1.87 billion in revenue. Asia led the growth, and ChatGPT was the top app for in-app revenue. Users spent 15.6 billion hours on GenAI apps, with an average daily usage of 16 minutes on ChatGPT.

Google's AlphaEarth Foundations model combines satellite images, radar, and climate simulations to create detailed maps of Earth's land and coastal waters, aiding conservation efforts and providing unprecedented detail

Aeva Technologies has partnered with LG Innotek to manufacture its 4D lidar sensor, Atlas Ultra, for the automotive sector. LG Innotek will invest up to $50 million in Aeva, acquiring a 6% equity stake. Aeva's lidar technology measures distance and velocity in real-time, enabling more efficient production and integration in markets like automotive, robotics, and consumer electronics.

Palo Alto Networks is acquiring CyberArk, a security company specializing in identity security and privileged access management, in a $25 billion cash-and-stock deal. This acquisition will boost Palo Alto Networks' platform strategy, providing a unified product with various security capabilities, including cloud, network, and endpoint security. CyberArk's tools will help verify and secure human and machine identities, which have become increasingly important for enterprises.

The US government has announced a plan to digitize healthcare, with major tech companies like Apple, Amazon, and Google supporting the effort. The plan aims to give patients more control over their healthcare data and improve access to healthcare services through digital technologies like AI-powered symptom checkers and digital intake systems.

TikTok has launched Footnotes, a crowdsourced fact-checking system similar to X's Community Notes feature. The system allows contributors to write and rate notes on TikTok videos, providing more context and information to users. The feature is initially rolling out to US users as a pilot program and will expand upon TikTok's existing Global Fact-checking Program.

Apple has released a new update for its iOS and iPadOS operating systems, fixing 29 vulnerabilities in its mobile ecosystem. The update includes fixes for issues with CoreMedia Playback, VoiceOver, and WebKit, and is likely to be the last major security update before the release of iOS 26 later this year.