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Five federal agencies just confirmed that attackers are using AI to write exploit code aimed at the controllers running America's water and energy plants, which means the same tools compressing your workday are compressing the attacker's too. Fresh corporate spending data shows OpenAI closing fast on Anthropic's enterprise lead, which means the AI vendor your company standardized on six months ago may already be the wrong bet. And Google is handing your news feed to a chatbot that rebuilds it on request, which means what reaches you every morning is about to get a lot more personal and a lot less neutral.

In today's AI Pulse

• 🚨 Hackers Weaponize AI – Five US agencies warn AI-written exploit scripts are hitting the controllers behind water and energy plants.

• 📈 OpenAI Closes the Gap – New business spending data shows OpenAI gaining fast on Anthropic inside paying companies.

• 📰 Google Rebuilds Your Feed – Discover gets a chatbot that reshapes your news feed on command.

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🚨 Hackers Are Using AI Against America's Water Systems

🧠 The Pulse

The NSA, FBI, CISA, the Department of Energy and the EPA issued a joint advisory warning that attackers are using AI to generate exploit scripts aimed at Siemens S7 programmable logic controllers. Those devices run pumps, valves and machinery across water, energy, chemical and manufacturing sites, so a breach can cause physical damage.

📌 The Download

• Five agencies signed the alert – The NSA, FBI, CISA, the Department of Energy and the EPA jointly warned that Siemens S7 controllers across US critical infrastructure are under active attack.

• AI is writing the exploits – Officials say threat actors are generating exploitation scripts from public information using AI tools, collapsing the time and expertise an attack used to demand.

• The damage can be physical – Compromised controllers govern pumps and machinery, so an intrusion can trigger process disruption, downtime, equipment damage and safety incidents, not just data loss.

• The openings are basic – Outdated software, default credentials, internet-exposed devices and weak network segmentation remain the entry points that AI merely exploits faster.

💡 What This Means for You

AI is not only compressing your work; it is compressing the attacker's. The controls that stop this are unglamorous and familiar: patch on schedule, kill default passwords, segment operational networks and audit what is reachable from outside. Treat security basics as a process with a cycle time, not a checklist.

📈 OpenAI Is Closing In on Anthropic at Work

🧠 The Pulse

Spending data from Ramp shows OpenAI narrowing Anthropic's lead among paying business customers. Across more than 70,000 businesses, Anthropic held roughly 44% of AI usage in July against OpenAI's 40%, but OpenAI grew faster through the quarter. Enterprise loyalty is proving far softer than traditional software vendors enjoy.

📌 The Download

• Anthropic still leads, narrowly – In Ramp's sample of more than 70,000 businesses, Anthropic accounted for about 44% of paid AI usage in July versus roughly 40% for OpenAI.

• OpenAI is growing faster – Ramp's data shows OpenAI gaining share more quickly across the quarter, with adoption of its newest flagship model doing much of the work.

• The category is still expanding – Nearly 56% of companies in the dataset paid for AI in July, so one vendor's gain no longer requires a rival's loss.

• Read the sample carefully – Ramp's customers skew toward technology firms and the figures track usage rather than dollars, so treat this as a directional signal, not a market share table.

💡 What This Means for You

The AI tool that wins your evaluation today may lose it next quarter. Build workflows that stay portable: document why each model was chosen, keep prompts and data out of vendor-specific formats where you can, and schedule a retest on the tasks that actually matter to your work.

📰 Google Is Letting AI Rebuild Your News Feed

🧠 The Pulse

Google is adding a chatbot to Discover that lets you describe your interests in plain language and have your feed rebuilt around them. Alongside it, Preferred Sources is expanding so readers can favour publishers across Search, AI Overviews, AI Mode, News and Discover, while Google News gains customisable daily audio briefings.

📌 The Download

• Discover gets a conversation – A chatbot-style interface lets users tell Discover what they want more or less of, and the system remembers those preferences and refreshes the feed.

• Publishers get a preference button – Google is making Preferred Sources easier to switch on from a publisher's own site, lifting that outlet across Top Stories, Search, AI Overviews, AI Mode and Google News.

• Favouring a source moves clicks – Google says users are about twice as likely to click a source they have explicitly preferred, giving publishers a lever against AI-driven traffic loss.

• Briefings go audio – Google News on Android is adding customisable daily audio rundowns, extending personalisation from what you read to what you hear.

💡 What This Means for You

Your information diet is becoming something you configure rather than something you receive. That is an upside if you curate deliberately, so pin the sources you trust for your field. It is a risk if you do not, because a feed tuned purely to your habits quietly narrows what you ever see.

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Short, sharp updates to keep your finger on the AI pulse.

• 🤯 Google Chat Can Now Search Your Entire Workday: From August 26, Ask Gemini replaces the Gemini side panel in Google Chat and can search Gmail, Drive and Calendar, summarise threads, draft updates, manage tasks and schedule meetings. Existing side-panel history and Gems will not carry over.

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