We are so cooked.
Anthropic just accidentally leaked its most powerful AI model because someone forgot to lock a blog CMS. They’re warning it could “outpace the efforts of defenders” in cybersecurity.
Do you understand what just happened??
Close to 3,000 unpublished files were sitting in a publicly accessible data store.. Draft blog posts, PDFs, details of a secret CEO retreat at an 18th-century English manor. Anyone could find them. Anthropic’s response? “Human error.”
The leaked documents describe a new model tier above Opus. Dramatically better than anything that exists.
Their own internal draft says it’s “far ahead of any other AI model in cyber capabilities.” Anthropic confirmed it’s real. They called it “a step change.”
They are terrified of their own model.
CrowdStrike dropped 7%. Palo Alto Networks fell 6%. Cybersecurity ETF down 6% in a single session, now 20%+ on the year. Bitcoin slid from $70K to $66K overnight. $20 billion in market cap vaporized over a draft blog post about something that hasn’t even shipped yet.
A $380 billion company with $20+ billion in revenue is telling you, in their own leaked words, that the thing they built will break the internet’s defenses faster than anyone can patch them.
They wrote that down. In a blog draft. Then left the blog draft unlocked on the internet.
Every script kiddie with API access is about to become a state-level threat actor.. Every firewall vendor is about to become a legacy vendor.. Every “we take security seriously” banner on every SaaS login page is about to age like milk.
Sleep well tonight.
> start a business
> give up steady income for the sake of creating jobs
> gotta make payroll; maybe next year the family can take a vacation
> pay 40-50% income tax every year
> time to retire and finally get to know your kids
> sell company
> receive 44.6% tax bill
AI x Robotics is developing shockingly fast.
The robots we used to watch in movies are becoming a reality.
Here are 17 real demos that look straight out of a sci-fi movie:
The Microsoft Excel Championship wrapped in Las Vegas last weekend.
Andrew “The Annihilator” Ngai won his 3rd straight title.
The Australian actuary beat 14 opponents in various 30-minute case study challenges.
Funniest part: this clip of live-stream announcers losing their minds over pivot tables and data labeling.
What did Ngai get for winning? A $15k cash prize and a glorious Wrestling Championship Belt 😂
CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER HIRING
Over the past few years, I've seen several top private tech companies part with their Head of Product / CPO in less than a year. The symptoms are many, but the root cause is the inability for the product-centric CEO to treat the CPO as someone more than a roadmap executor, while the CPO desired to be more strategic.
Post CPO exit, in some cases, the CEO has taken on the CPO responsibilities and eliminated the role; in other cases, the Head of Eng consolidated design and product under them to form a unified EPD team.
Note that the importance of the PM role is not in question at any of these companies; it's the (need for the) role of the CPO / Head of Product.
Underscores that the CPO role is one of the hardest ones to successfully hire for.
CEOs: Your unique role as CEO is not to assess if these candidates can successfully build products, but rather to determine if they can successfully build products with YOU.
CPO candidates: Probe deeply for why the CEO wants a CPO. Is it to delegate tactical work? Or is to truly be a thought partner?
* People ask LLMs to write code
* LLMs recommend imports that don't actually exist
* Attackers work out what these imports' names are, and create & upload them with malicious payloads
* People using LLM-written code then auto-add malware themselves
https://t.co/Va9w18RpWu
"Something to think about:
The Earth is 4.6 billion years old. Let us scale that to 46 years.
We have been here for four hours. Our industrial revolution began one minute ago.
In that time, we have destroyed 50% of the world's forests. This is not sustainable."
https://t.co/46KXytT5LD
"Ser un agente de cambio es algo arriesgado, y todo el cuidado y la perspicacia del mundo pueden no ser suficientes para superar las defensas contra la ansiedad. Es más como una guerra de trincheras, o psicoanálisis, que simplemente crear argumentos"
My coding adventure with ChatGPT and @replit continues. This time I asked it to:
1. Write the spec for Duck Hunt
2. Use the spec to write the code for Duck Hunt
Had to go back and forth 10+ times to fix bugs but it works.
Best of all...