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Friday, July 17, 2026

EU legally binds Google to share search data and open Android's AI—reshaping Google's monopoly. Meanwhile, 54% of enterprises hit by AI agent incidents while lacking basic security controls like unique identities and credential isolation—zero trust architecture now urgent.

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The EU issues two decisions under the DMA, requiring Google to provide rival AI assistants and search engines comparable access to Android and some Search data (Robert Hart/The Verge)
Google ordered to open Android and Search to rivals in Europe
Bunkerhill Health, which uses AI agents for hospital tasks like managing wait times, raised a $25M Series B led by Khosla, bringing its total funding to $55M (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
A hacker claims to have accessed Suno user info and source code, showing how it scraped music; Suno says no sensitive info was compromised in a November hack (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
'We used acid to sabotage Microsoft hyperscale data centre construction'
The agent evaluation gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a reality-alignment problem, not a coverage problem — and most are shipping to production anyway
Zero trust must now move at agent speed
The agent security gap: 54% of enterprises have already had an AI agent incident, and most still let agents share credentials
After reports of GPT-5.6 deleting files, OpenAI says the issue most often occurs in full-access mode without sandboxing and it is working to mitigate the risk (Tibo/@thsottiaux)
Coca-Cola suspended production at its Fairlife dairy after a ransomware attack
It's official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android
Now, even Russia's most elite hackers are using Clickfix to infect devices

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