Overheating fridges and spotting fish with AI

Not very chill, dude: France says hackers from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps were behind last month’s attacks that cranked up the heat in supermarket fridges across the country, starting at least 15 fires, Reuters reports.

Google has released Gemini 4 Carbon, positioning it as its most capable AI model yet. Google claims it tops several coding and agent benchmarks at less than half the cost per task of rivals. The results haven’t been independently verified.

X is still waiting for GPT Sol 6.2, with leakers and fanbois now pinning their hopes the Opus 5.5 rival could be out as early as today.

Flounder story: Researchers led by Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi are training AI to identify fish species in underwater video from UAE waters, sparing scientists hours of footage-watching, Middle East Online reports. The tool can already spot ten fish species and it’s still an early proof of concept.

Speaking of training data: Google is buying old emails, spreadsheets and calendars from the defunct US airline Spirit for USD 10 mn to train its AI, the Wall Street Journal reports. After staff unions complained, Google agreed to remove personal details like health records first.

A dark side of AI: Deutsche Welle looks at how AI is worsening online abuse of women in the Middle East.

There are plenty of great films in flight, from Jimmy Stewart as Charles Lindbergh in The Spirit of St. Louis to the original 1970 Airport (a top 10 disaster film of all time) and the Jodie Foster thriller Flightplan. But there’s one clear champion.

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