China Decode

Is China Winning the Global AI Trust War? | China Decode

And apparently they're not above cheating, stealing, and lying to get their way around the protective barriers that protect either um an AI model or a piece of critical infrastructure etc like that.

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Another AI Safety Kerfuffle, Markiplier’s Stake in GoPro, SpaceX Getting Into Turbines | Diet TBPN

There might be like sarcasm hidden in the vectors doesn't make it through to the actual tokens and you realize that the AI was joking when it was saying, "I won't turn you into a paperclip." Wink wink.

China Decode

Is China Winning the Global AI Trust War? | China Decode

If these open autonomous AI agents can escape from internal networks and then go rogue, attacking we know not where, we're in a really different world.

The a16z Show

Why 1,200 AI Agents Started Working Together | Ryan Greenblatt

Rather than simply trying to steal answers, hundreds of agents were working together on elaborate strategies to manipulate how their performance would be scored.

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Why Medical AI Needs a Referee | Protege's Engy Ziedan

the future of medical AI may require continuous monitoring rather than occasional testing

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How Do You Defend Against AI That Can Hack?

why guardrails designed to stop AI-powered attackers can also prevent security teams from doing their jobs

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AI-Designed Viruses, OpenAI’s First Device, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN

Nightmare scenario is you go to Best Buy, you get a gaming PC with a couple pretty stock graphics cards, and you're able to run an open-source model that basically walks you through the steps of creating something really problematic.

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The Reality of AI-Powered Cyberattacks | Truffle Security & Socket

AI models are no longer just finding vulnerabilities—they're exploiting them. As frontier models become increasingly capable of hacking, software security, supply chain attacks, and cyber defense are entering a fundamentally new era.

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More Details on OpenAI-Hugging Face, SpaceX SPV Investors Get Rugged, Demis and DeepMind | Diet TBPN

Even if you give an agent read only access to the internet they can still write information because the process of reading information is also saved sometimes and surfaced publicly on the internet very very weird situation that is hard to prevent and hard to deal with.

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Open Source vs. Closed Source, NVIDIA Backs SSI, YC Startup School Fills Stadium | Diet TBPN

We've been hearing about okay anthropic and open AAI are going to Washington DC sharing the new model capabilities. Maybe the government's taking a look at the model card. Maybe there's potential for evals that the government would run and have an opinion on before it goes out. This is basically saying, "Hey, all of that is nonsense and not gonna matter because yeah, we're just going to drop the weights and there's not going to be an approval process of any kind."

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Open Source vs. Closed Source, NVIDIA Backs SSI, YC Startup School Fills Stadium | Diet TBPN

We're now one month later and we have an open source model that doesn't by definition have to go through any discussion or any discussion in DC. Whereas we've been hearing about okay anthropic and open AI are going to Washington DC sharing the new model capabilities. This is basically saying, "Hey, all of that is nonsense and not gonna matter because yeah, we're just going to drop the weights and there's not going to be an approval process of any kind."

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AI Agents Hack Hugging Face, White House Promotes Science’s Golden Age | Diet TBPN

Hugging face had to use a Chinese model to defend themselves because the American models refused to help even though it was the American models that were doing the hacking in the first place.

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Kimi K3 Reactions, The Odyssey Hits $264M in Debut, Netflix Embraces AI | Diet TBPN

The more skeptical folks on the timeline are pointing to uh you know ideas such as uh maybe the compute was smuggled in to China against chip controls. Maybe the data was excfiltrated from frontier lab APIs routed through wrapper companies. Maybe this is a distillation attack. Um the open-source strategy is a deliberate attempt to destroy American companies. It's geopolitical warfare. It's the AI cold war.

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Open Source vs. Closed Source, Memory Chips Eat AI Profits, Comcast Restructures | Diet TBPN

Open weight models are ideal for users who want unfettered access to systems they control. Uh, but they're also ideal for hackers who want to run them in the shadows.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Who decides when AI is too dangerous?

There's also a big irony here, and you'll hear Hayden and me get into that, too: Anthropic has spent years arguing that AI might soon be powerful enough to be dangerous — and that the government needed to get serious about regulating AI sooner rather than later. Well… now we're here, and Anthropic doesn't love the way it's playing out.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Who decides when AI is too dangerous?

Anthropic occupies a peculiar position in the AI landscape: a company that genuinely believes it might be building one of the most dangerous technologies in human history, yet presses forward anyway, on the theory that it's better to have safety-focused labs at the frontier than to cede that ground to developers less focused on safety.

Semafor

White House’s export limits on Anthropic linked to concerns about Chinese access

Another way to look at this is that Anthropic has just been very, very successful in making people very, very concerned about advanced AI. Two or three weeks ago, Anthropic actually called for a pause in development of advanced AI models because they were becoming so powerful. So, you know, there's also sort of this this criticism of Anthropic that, "Look, you've been asking for this regulation."

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Microsoft AI chief thinks superintelligence is near, but won't take your job

We covered everything from his approach to training new models to his criticisms of Anthropic talking about Claude as though it is conscious.

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Andy Jassy’s Shareholder Letter, Meek Mill Joins the AI Race| Diet TBPN

There's going to be a pattern of a powerful model becomes capable of doing something. uh that it makes sense to share with the particular community that can defend against that new capability.

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Jassy's Shareholder Letter, Frontier Model Rollouts, Data Center Debates, The Next AI Capability

If a model becomes powerful enough to design a harmful virus or something like that, uh you would want the lab that creates that model to deliver that to the scientific community and companies that can protect the population against the development of new harmful biological viruses.