Alex Nguyen

#cybersecurity, #infosec, #technology, #AI

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ChatGPT Isn’t Just Changing How We Work. It’s Harming How We Think. New research says the cognitive costs of AI may be higher than we realize. https://t.co/nMJVamekQv

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Studios are swapping actors for AI in short dramas. Is Hollywood next? TrueShort, a new AI film startup, said it can make 20- to 30-minute shows for $1,000 to $3,000 each — a fraction of the typical $100,000 to $300,000 cost of those using human actors. https://t.co/T6Yk3aWyx4

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Cable lobby warns of chaos if FCC doesn’t relax ban on foreign routers. NCTA seeks waiver from foreign-router ban, citing memory and substrate shortages. Cable providers can’t change some of the components in routers they offer to home broadband users. https://t.co/MZ1qanXVOS

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China poaches more AI talent from the U.S. as it eyes the next ‘super-app’. But as Chinese companies grab talent from Silicon Valley, they’re increasingly bringing the U.S. vision with them. https://t.co/KzY5af7AIV

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'World-first' vaccine designed by artificial intelligence. The team at the University of Cambridge say it is the first time a vaccine's key component has been designed entirely by AI and then trialled in people. https://t.co/PgwWMY2xdK

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Scientists in 'autonomous laboratories' are starting to outsource work to robots. To do this work, scientists use AI to translate experimental designs into instructions for robots about the work they need done in the lab. https://t.co/wPRin5sYoa

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AI CEOs from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft set aside their rivalry to warn Congress AI is making it too easy to design and create bioweapons. They're asking for more safeguards against a threat that their own technology has helped create. https://t.co/U4CnF8QFwj

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Meta putting up tents across the US to house AI servers, like ‘a scene out of the movie Mad Max’, structures take three months to build and use jet engines for power. These "makeshift" structures are housing hardware that costs millions of dollars in total.https://t.co/kF9KckTQlx

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An Anthropic employee said AI advancements are leaving them in a state of turmoil. One worker said they had not written any code themselves in about 5 months, and another predicted that AI-generated code would outperform human-written code within a year. https://t.co/Z9XADPfB54

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Can ChatGPT beat the S&P 500? Eight months of daily picks suggest no. The authors wanted to see how AI behaves when it is making forward-looking calls in real time, knowing nothing about returns that have not yet happened. https://t.co/bzhb2mSWok

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Canadian MPs and senators have joined a campaign that started in the U.K. to prevent the development of superintelligent AI, warning that it poses an extinction risk on a par with nuclear war. Superintelligent AI could arrive before 2030. https://t.co/FmYZi9DAAc

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Amazon engineers are calling out the tech giant for its $200 billion in data center spending after slashing 30,000 workers. “What that tells me is that Big Tech is desperate to build as much compute capacity as it can, as fast as it can.” https://t.co/g9hClFn5zM

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‘At some point you’ve got to make money’: Goldman’s top AI skeptic warns the clock is running out ahead of OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs. For 2 years, Jim Covello has been asking the same uncomfortable question: when does Wall Street’s AI bet actually pay off? https://t.co/sofVDgF7NM

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to give potentially more than a thousand local law enforcement agencies a facial recognition app that would query a database of hundreds of millions of images to verify someone’s immigration status. https://t.co/eqBf9GYKdm

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China Builds an Economic Fortress as Global Tensions Rise. Beijing says the changes are needed for national security, but they could complicate efforts by Chinese companies to find growth overseas. https://t.co/JMRDs8Ofv5

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A group of Republican lawmakers is demanding that the FBI investigate whether rising anti-AI sentiment among the American public is a foreign-influence operation led by China. https://t.co/1OTBdRguub

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GitHub disabled 73 Microsoft repositories across four of its GitHub organizations in a 105-second sweep on June 5. The recompromised durabletask package sits at the center, and the fingerprints point at the open-sourced Miasma worm. https://t.co/1NJzgqvRj0

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The U.S. military has likely been quietly broadcasting codes for its global encryption network using public GPS for nearly 20 years, turning each satellite into a hidden “numbers station”. https://t.co/bxWanLtwD0

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Google to pay SpaceX $920 million a month for 32 months for compute capacity at xAI data centers. SpaceX announced a similar arrangement with Anthropic in May. https://t.co/xhoIRg0Br0

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New research details how the increasing integration of AI agents into businesses is making it easier than ever for insiders - malicious or otherwise - to put sensitive data at risk. https://t.co/kw5uE6vLtO