✨ Morning, Enthusiasts

This issue covers the biggest AI rollouts of the week - from OpenAI’s new security agent and Microsoft’s Copilot Chat to Gemini’s creative upgrade and a breakthrough in AI-driven cancer research.

OPENAI

🛡️ OpenAI Unveils Aardvark: A New AI Security Agent for Code Defense

OpenAI announced Aardvark, an autonomous AI agent powered by GPT-5 that detects and fixes software vulnerabilities at scale.

Key Details:

• Continuously monitors code commits to identify and patch vulnerabilities.

• Uses LLM reasoning and tool use—no traditional fuzzing or static analysis.

• Validates exploitability in sandboxed environments.

• Integrates with GitHub and Codex for automated patch generation.

• Achieved 92% detection accuracy in benchmark tests.

• Discovered multiple open-source vulnerabilities, ten assigned CVEs.

Why it matters:
Over 40,000 CVEs were reported in 2024, and roughly 1.2% of commits introduce new bugs. Aardvark aims to give defenders scalable, continuous protection through AI-driven code analysis.Currently in private beta for select partners and open-source maintainers.

MICROSOFT

🧠 Microsoft Launches Copilot Chat: Secure AI Assistant for Work

Microsoft has rolled out Copilot Chat, a secure, enterprise-grade AI chat experience included with Microsoft 365 available at no extra cost for all Entra account users.

Key Details:

• Enables AI-assisted writing, analysis, and task automation directly within Microsoft 365 apps.

• Free and secure access for eligible users; sign in with your work account to start.

• Supports agent-based automation for workflows, billed on a metered Azure basis.

• Maintains full enterprise data protection and IT admin control over usage and agents.

• Integrates seamlessly across Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams.

Why it matters:
As businesses scale AI adoption, Microsoft positions Copilot Chat as a trusted productivity layer combining generative AI with enterprise security.
Available now for Microsoft 365 subscribers via web and app download.

QUICK HITS

Perplexity AI Unveils Congressional Stock Trade Tracker

Perplexity AI, in partnership with Unusual Whales, has launched a Congressional Stock Trade Tracker on its Finance platform, letting users search stock holdings and trades of over 600 U.S. lawmakers from public 2012 STOCK Act disclosures, expanding its insider trading tools for greater transparency.

OpenAI Launches Agent Mode in ChatGPT

OpenAI has introduced Agent Mode, a new feature that lets ChatGPT act on your behalf by navigating websites, filling forms, booking appointments, and executing multi-step plans. The update turns ChatGPT into an active agent for completing online tasks faster. Available in preview for ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Business users, Agent Mode brings autonomous browsing and task execution directly into ChatGPT.

AI CREATIVITY

🎨 How To Build AI-Powered Creative Apps with Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

AI that blends speed, control, and creative flexibility , Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is now production-ready with 10 new aspect ratios for every platform.

Highlights:

• Blend multiple images into one coherent scene

• Keep characters consistent across frames for storytelling

• Perform targeted edits with natural language

• Supports 21:9, 16:9, 1:1, 9:16, and more (10 total formats)

• Already powering apps like Cartwheel’s Pose Mode and Volley’s dungeon crawler

👉 Read More about Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

AI HEALTH

🎗️ AI Finds a Kinder Cure: Cancer Stopped, Cells Saved

This week’s AIHealthTech Insider explores how a new cancer therapy halts tumor growth without harming healthy cells, how Stanford’s wireless implant helps 84% of blind patients read again, and how Google Cloud and Anthropic are powering the next wave of precision medicine.

👉 Read the full issue of AIHealthTech Insider — where AI meets healing.

WEEKEND EDITION

🚀 Google’s Turning AI Students Into CEOs

In this Sunday edition, Google and UCL launch a free AI Research Foundations program helping learners master coding, fine-tuning, and real-world AI projects guided by Gemini’s top researchers.

Plus: this week’s AI events, free courses, and career openings to keep you future-ready.

👉 Read AI Entrepreneurs: Sunday Special – Issue #19 for everything shaping tomorrow’s builders.