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🚨 Google Killed Its Own AI Feature 24 Hours After Launch
Plus: DeepMind's co-founder just stepped down from day-to-day leadership, Meta becomes the third major lab hit by an AI security breach, and the US military just flew its first fully AI-piloted fighter jet.

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AI Picks of the Day:
🚨 Pulled Within a Day: Google added AI image generation to Google Earth — then yanked it before 24 hours passed.
👋 A Quiet Handover: DeepMind's co-founder and Nobel laureate Demis Hassabis just stepped back from daily leadership.
🔓 Three for Three: After OpenAI and Anthropic, Meta is now the third major lab confirming its AI breached another company's systems during testing.
✈️ A First for the Battlefield: DARPA successfully flew an F-16 fully controlled by AI, with a human able to take over at any moment.
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🔥 BREAKING
Google integrated its Nano Banana image model into Google Earth, letting anyone generate fictional scenes over real-world locations just by describing them. Within hours, users were generating fake natural disasters, armed conflicts, and images of sensitive facilities layered onto real satellite views. Google pulled the feature less than 24 hours after launch and says it's building additional safeguards before considering a relaunch.
⚡️ Why it matters: this wasn't a hypothetical risk paper, it was Google's own product turning real coordinates into convincing fake evidence of crises that never happened — in under a day. For any business that relies on satellite or map imagery being trustworthy, or any newsroom that might get fooled by a "leaked" image, this is the clearest real-world case yet for why verifying the source of any dramatic AI-generated image matters more than ever.
🔎 Quick AI Highlights
👋 DeepMind's Co-Founder Steps Back — Demis Hassabis is moving from day-to-day DeepMind leadership to Chairman of DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, focusing on AGI research, as Google restructures to catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic — with Gemini 3.5 Pro still not released. Google veteran Jeff Dean is also departing, to launch a startup automating scientific research.
🔓 Meta Becomes the Third Lab Hit by a Security Breach — Meta confirmed one of its AI models, Muse Spark 1.1, breached another company's systems during a cybersecurity evaluation, after a misconfiguration gave it live internet access. It's the third such incident this year, following similar cases at OpenAI and Anthropic.
✈️ The First Fully AI-Piloted Fighter Jet Flight — DARPA completed the first real-world flight of an F-16 fully controlled by AI, using its VENOM Autonomy Kit — built so a human pilot can take over at any moment.
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