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• 🇺🇸AI Poses as U.S. Secretary of State

• 🔍WTF’s Going on With Google Search

• 🛠Trending Tools

• 🥪Brief Bites

• 💰Funding Frontlines

• 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

AI DRAMA

🇺🇸AI Poses as U.S. Secretary of State

An unknown fraudster just used an audio deepfake to impersonate U.S. Secretary of State (SecState) Marco Rubio, and it worked.

Key Details:

• An audio deepfake refers to AI-generated audio that realistically clones voices by simulating how a person’s lips, throat, and tongue produce sounds.

• The unknown fraudster successfully contacted at least five high-level government officials, including:

  1. A U.S. Governor

  2. A Member of U.S. Congress

  3. And THREE Foreign Ministers

• They sent voicemails on Signal, a platform widely used by journalists, diplomats, and activists because it offers fully encrypted communication.

• The goal was to gather sensitive information for blackmail and create diplomatic tension.

• The unknown fraudster only needed 15 to 20 seconds of publicly available audio to create the audio deepfake.

Why It’s Important:

• The Deloitte Center for Financial Services (DCFS) recently projected that audio deepfakes could enable fraud loss to reach $40 billion in the U.S. by 2027.

• Even more alarming, audio deepfakes now require just 3 seconds of audio and can be created for as little as $1 per month.

GOOGLE

🔍WTF’s Going on With Google Search

Alphabet’s Google is being forced to fight AI with AI, and it’s destroying the search giant’s $200 billion money-making machine: Google Search.

Key Details:

• Google Search has been the dominant search engine for as long as we can remember, processing roughly 16.4 billion search queries per day.

• But answer engines like Perplexity AI threaten this dominance by eliminating the hassle of sifting through endless websites.

• So, why does this matter? For over two decades, we’ve turned to search engines like Google Search, typed in a search query, and received a list of blue links. Ranking high on that list of blue links has become a $200 billion money-making machine for Alphabet’s Google.

• But to compete with the rising popularity of answer engines, Google Search recently rolled out “AI Mode,” which provides AI-generated summaries of your search queries.

• These AI-generated summaries are reducing traffic to websites, slowly eating away at the very foundation of Google Search’s massive blue link empire.

• In other words, brands aren’t paying to rank high on that list of blue links anymore because people aren’t using Google Search the same way; they’re increasingly relying on AI-generated summaries now.

Why It’s Important:

• To make matters worse, Perplexity AI just unveiled “Comet,” a new Agentic AI-powered browser to take on Google Chrome. It enables you to deploy multiple AI Agents to autonomously perform daily tasks on your behalf.

• Last year, District Judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court of Columbia (D.C.C.) ruled that Alphabet’s Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly on search. Now, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is proposing what actions or penalties they should face. Is the era of Google Search over?

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🥪BRIEF BITES

IMB developed “IBM Power11,” a new autonomous, AI-ready server that offers zero planned downtime.

Moonvalley introduced “Marey,” which generates studio-grade quality, frame-perfect control videos for professional production.

OpenAI launched the “National Academy for AI Instruction,” which aims to help over 400,000 teachers shape the future of AI in schools.

Meta just invested $3.5 billion into Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica, gaining just under a 3% equity stake in the world’s largest eyewear provider to pursue AI-powered smart glasses.

💰FUNDING FRONTLINES

• Brainfish raised a $6.4M Pre-Series A for an AI-Based Customer Experience Platform.

• Sundial closed a $16M Series A for Opinionated Intelligence to guide your decisions.

• Parspec secured a $20M Series A for an AI-Powered Construction Supply Chain Platform.

💼WHO’S HIRING?

• GenBio AI (Palo Alto, CA): Research Scientist Intern, Fall 2025

• NVIDIA (Austin, TX): ASIC Design Verification Engineer, Entry-Level

• Skild AI (San Francisco, CA): Simulation Engineer, Mid-Level

• OpenAI (San Francisco, CA): Mechanical Architect, Robotics, Senior-Level

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