AI
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says company isn’t seeking government backstop, clarifying prior comment
OpenAI has inked more than $1 trillion of infrastructure deals in recent months to try and build out its infrastructure.
At the Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live event, Friar said OpenAI is looking to create an ecosystem of banks, private equity and a federal “backstop” or “guarantee” that could help the company finance its investments in cutting-edge chips.
Since that makes it obvious that OpenAI has no realistic business model, she's walking that statement back. Like banks in 2008, their plan is to becoome too big, and too close to the government, to fail, and just depend on US taxpayers to bail them out when the bills come due.
The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops
Michael Burry, who famously shorted the US housing market before its collapse in 2008, has bet over $1 billion that the share prices of AI chipmaker Nvidia and software company Palantir will fall — making a similar play, in other words, on the prediction that the AI industry will collapse.
Nvidia’s (NVDA) CEO and Elite Scientists Say Artificial General Intelligence Is Already Here
Leading AI figures have emphasized that artificial intelligence has already reached the level of human intelligence. The observation comes as Big Tech companies continue to ramp up their aggressive capital spending on AI infrastructure.
AGI’s Wild Future Needs a Tamer. Meet CyberAGI
CyberAGI will predict and remediate hacks before they occur – even the kinds that the world has never seen – the zero days.
We believe the conditions are just right—a perfect storm that positions us to be the first company to build true cybersecurity superintelligence.
More trash from the company that brought you MIT's paper: "80% of ransomware attacks now use artificial intelligence."
Gemini Deep Research can tap into your Gmail and Google Drive
Previously, Gemini would just look through the web or any PDFs or images you uploaded with the prompt.
Now, Deep Research can “draw on context from your Gmail, Drive and Chat and work it directly into your research.” Gemini will look through Docs, Slides, Sheets and PDFs stored in your Drive, as well as emails and messages across Google Workspace.
What could possibly go wrong?
Refund requests flood Microsoft after tricking users into AI upgrades
Microsoft told customers it was jacking up the price by 45 per cent for its office suite, and only gave them two options: accept the price for the product – and its AI add-ons – or cancel. But there was another choice: to pay the usual rate and not get CoPilot. Now millions of Australian customers are demanding refunds.
SlopGuard
AI Hallucination Detection for Package Dependencies
Detects AI-hallucinated packages, typosquatting, and supply chain attacks with automated trust scoring. Zero maintenance, <5% false positives.
Apple's New Siri Will Be Powered By Google Gemini
The AI model that Google is developing for Apple will run on Apple's Private Cloud Compute servers, so Google will not have access to Apple data.
7 new vulnerabilities and techniques in ChatGPT (P)
Many variations on prompt injection, bypassing the existing defenses.
Methodology: How we discovered over 2k high-impact vulnerabilities in apps built with vibe coding platforms (P)
Our research team analyzed over 5,600 publicly available applications and identified more than 2,000 vulnerabilities, 400+ exposed secrets, and 175 instances of PII (including medical records, IBANs, phone numbers, and emails).
Politics
GOP support for eliminating filibuster picks up steam after Trump pressure
As of now, there aren’t 50 Republican senators who would vote to change the rules to reopen the government and speed the rest of Trump’s agenda through Congress.
Judge Orders Trump Administration to Fully Fund Food Stamps This Month
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Thursday to fund food stamps in full, admonishing the government for delaying aid. Judge McConnell sharply criticized the administration for ignoring his original order last week to quickly restart payments for SNAP, or food stamps. He attributed the delay, in part, to an attempt by President Trump and his aides to disrupt the program “for political reasons.”
By its own admission, the Agriculture Department had ample funds to continue the program. But it took the intervention of two federal courts, including an order by Judge McConnell, before Mr. Trump’s deputies moved to restart food stamp payments.
Trump admin asks appeals court to pause judge’s requirement that it make full November SNAP payments
“This unprecedented injunction makes a mockery of the separation of powers. Courts hold neither the power to appropriate nor the power to spend.”
Trump pushes Republicans to pass sweeping election reforms
Trump said “we should pass voter ID, we should pass no mail-in voting, we should pass things we want to pass to make our elections secure and safe because California is a disaster. Many of the states are disasters.”
DOJ Admits to Republicans That Epstein Files Are Even Worse for Trump
The true details of the Epstein files are “worse” for Trump than previously reported, including photos of Trump with half-naked “young girls” in his lap. Republicans are clamoring for the files’ full release. More than 100 Republicans are planning to vote alongside Democrats in an effort to “get in front of what’s coming.”
Thousands of flights cancelled or delayed in US as air traffic control hit by government shutdown
Heritage staff in open revolt over leader’s defense of Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson interviewes Nick Fuentes, an open, proud Nazi and antisemite, who is very popular with young Republicans and increasingly seem as the future of the GOP. Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, posted a video that castigated a “venomous coalition” and “the globalist class” for attacking Carlson--using well-known dog-whistles for antisemitism.
At least five members of Heritage’s antisemitism task force have now resigned in protest.
mysafespace: a place for dems
FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site
The FBI is attempting to unmask the owner behind archive.today, a popular archiving site that is also regularly used to bypass paywalls on the internet and to avoid sending traffic to the original publishers of web content.
Very little is known about the person or people who work on archive.today, but one source says “it’s a one-person labor of love, operated by a Russian of considerable talent and access to Europe.”
FAA orders 10% cut in flights at several airports as shutdown drags on
The reductions, slated to take effect Friday, will probably increase flight delays and cancellations.
US Companies Announce Most October Job Cuts in Over 20 Years
US companies announced 153,074 job cuts last month, driven by the technology and warehousing sectors.
The job cuts are attributed to AI adoption, softening consumer and corporate spending, and rising costs, which are driving belt-tightening and hiring freezes.
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods.
Much of the fraud came from marketers acting suspiciously enough to be flagged by Meta’s internal warning systems. But the company only bans advertisers if its automated systems predict the marketers are at least 95% certain to be committing fraud. If the company is less certain – but still believes the advertiser is a likely scammer – Meta charges higher ad rates as a penalty.
Ex-Mossad chief, behind ICJ blackmail campaign, brags Israel has installed a global sabotage network
Former Mossad director Yossi Cohen has openly boasted that Israel has deployed a global sabotage and espionage network which uses “booby-trapped and spy-manipulated equipment”. The method, denounced as terrorism by ex-CIA chief Leon Panetta, was used to target Hezbollah and now, according to Cohen, is embedded in “all the countries you can imagine.”
Meet Project Suncatcher, Google’s plan to put AI data centers in space
Google is already zapping TPUs with radiation to get ready.
Infosec
Chrome now helps you fill in passport, driver’s license, vehicle information and more.
Store all that data in Chrome! Trust Google with it! What could possibly go wrong?
Nevada refused to pay ransom after cyberattack that shut down state systems
Recovery took 28 days and cost over $1 million.
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