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OpenAI presented details of its AI’s model’s cyberattack on Hugging Face at Black Hat last week. Simon Willison details the timeline. It’s really interesting to read through—and really impressive cyberoffense work.
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Google has made Gemini 4 Argon generally available on the Gemini API, AI Studio and the Gemini app. The sparse MoE model writes up to 1M output tokens and leads the Vals Index at 68.90%.
Apple is bringing Siri AI to older Apple TV 4K models via a free software update, so you might not need to buy a new model to get its smarter assistant.
Xbox is going along with the AI-generated chaos.
The Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32-S3 Sense is for tinkerers, not super-spies.
A Saudi National and employee of OpenAI has been arrested for allegedly planting a hidden recording device in an executive conference room at the company’s San Francisco offices to covertly record sensitive conversations.
AI’s increasingly independent AI agents promise to make life easier, but recent incidents show how even well-intentioned AI can become dangerous when it takes too much initiative
In September, hackers from a group called ShinyHunters announced that they stole a trove of FBI data about its own agents. It was an intelligence disaster. Last week, the FBI arrested (alternate link) someone associated with that crime.
On Wednesday I spent a day fishing, on a small boat out of Gloucester, MA. We caught many cod (none of which we could keep), and a bunch of hake and mackerel (all of which we could keep). And…I caught a squid!
This essay was written with Seva Gunitsky, and originally appeared in Foreign Affairs. Two weeks after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in March 2022, the Russian TV Channel One editor Marina Ovsyannikova burst onto the set of the evening newscast. She held up a hand-drawn sign behind the…
Apple just released a system called “Reference Image.” It can verify the image is exactly as taken by an iPhone—new models only—without tying it to a specific iPhone or photographer. It can also verify that multiple images came from the same iPhone.
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