AI assistants advance as cyber threats grow and space funding surges

Today brought a wave of AI product launches and big money moves. Meta unveiled Muse, an assistant built to handle everyday tasks, while OpenAI shipped a sharper, faster image model in ChatGPT. At the same time, French lab Mistral closed a three billion euro round led by Samsung, giving Europe a serious war chest in the foundation model race. Google made its Gemini Daily Brief free for Americans, pushing its assistant deeper into phones. On the security side, things got messy. Researchers say attackers are chaining Google redirects to steal credentials or plant remote access tools. Separately, Claude tokens are being lifted from Anthropic subscribers. OpenAI is also pushing back on a wiki takeover claim, arguing the incident wasn't a hack. In hardware, ASMagic packed a Ryzen AI Max chip and up to one hundred ninety two gigabytes of memory into a mini PC at IFA Berlin. Paris-based Exploration Company raised four hundred fifty million dollars for reusable spacecraft, a record European space Series C. And Boston Dynamics alumni started Dynamic Creatures in Waltham to build robotic characters for brands. The pattern is clear: AI is moving into every layer, from pocket assistants to orbital vehicles, while the threat surface keeps widening.