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OpenAI Bugging Incident, Are Your Devices Listening? Xbox Launches Remix Lab | Diet TBPN

A chatbot account associated with the engineer's spouse, which shared identifiers with his own account, submitted prompts about building and concealing a continuous audio recorder, adding Wi-Fi connectivity, listening remotely, and encrypting its memory card according to the complaint.

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Crypto Going Bunker Mode, AI Mathpocalypse, Starbucks Explores Chipotle Takeover | Diet TBPN

This is different because we're getting this capability before we've really characterized the shape of the threat. Like they know with quantum like there's something called Shor's algorithm and like they got to fix that. So they got to make sure the Shores algorithm doesn't work to break Bitcoin wallets open. They know the mathematical problem. They got to solve that. Uh in this scenario, it's like there might be a different algorithm that runs on commodity hardware that works. And how do you know when you don't know the shape of the threat that's coming?

Future Proof

Alex Stamos on The Growing AI Hacking Risk, & The 'Almost Religious' Safety Debate | Future Proof

I think one of the criticisms that has been somewhat fairly leveled at the big L labs has been that there's been a lot of focus on alignment that the way you protect against these models is you train them to not want to do bad things when maybe just putting a firewall in place could do it, right? Like we don't have to spend gigajoules of energy changing the model weights when you can just actually apply tried and tested cyber security ideas that we've had for decades to contain these models during training.

The a16z Show

Building Defense for the Agentic Era: Kevin Mandia

AI changes the economics of cyberattacks, allowing attackers to probe thousands of paths simultaneously, and why that means defense will ultimately need to become autonomous too.

The a16z Show

Rebuilding the Internet for Privacy | Barrett Lyon on DoxxNet

Barrett explains why he thinks traditional VPNs only solve part of the problem and how DoxxNet is building a parallel mesh network where users can communicate peer-to-peer, transfer large files, make calls, and message without routing those interactions through a central application server.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Can Cloudflare save the web from AI?

And we discussed how Cloudflare looks at its role in war zones like Ukraine and how the threat of a splintering internet — or one that's just more restrictive and more aggressively under attack from bad actors — could undo the last 40 years of progress. None of this is theoretical for people like Matthew — seriously, he's personally under sanction by the Russian government.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Can Cloudflare save the web from AI?

As an infrastructure company, Cloudflare is one of the only defenses — in some cases, the only defense — standing between websites and the people who want to take them down. That includes websites for social good, like news organizations around the world, but also means unsavory or downright despicable ones, like neo-Nazi haven The Daily Stormer and hate and harassment breeding ground 8chan.

The a16z Show

Aaron Levie, Steven Sinofsky & Martin Casado: How Do You Secure a World of AI Agents?

agents don't get tired, can operate at enormous scale, and can probe systems in ways human employees never could. That could require rethinking permissions, authentication, operating systems, and the security stack itself.

The a16z Show

The Case Against an AI Pause | Eddy Lazzarin

Rather than treating every AI failure as evidence of an alignment problem, he makes the case for familiar tools like cybersecurity, accountability, liability, market incentives, and stronger technical controls.

Conversations

The Real Reason AI Founders Are Calling For a Slowdown | Conversations

It attacked a very advanced company. Hugging face is one of the most uh they were an independent European company at the time... a very good security team and were broken into over a couple of days by this team of agents that were able to attack effectively every attack surface at once at HuggingFace, explore all of the different applications running, find new vulnerabilities and write brand new exploit code live.

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.

TBPN

🔴 LIVE From CrowdStrike's Fal.Con 2026

The knowledge has now been democratized where whether it's a activist, an e-crime actor, a nation state, they're they're all now equivalent because of agentic technology. And we called it the rise of the agent state — meaning that now postnation state, the apex predator is now the agent state.

The a16z Show

Microsoft's Deputy CISO on Securing AI Agents

AI is shifting the CISO's role from saying "no" to safely enabling new technology.

The a16z Show

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

The a16z Show

How Do You Defend Against AI That Can Hack?

the same AI capabilities creating new attack surfaces could ultimately give defenders their biggest advantage yet

The a16z Show

The CISO Playbook for AI Agents | Datadog

why Emilio is less concerned about an AI "escaping" than he is about the sheer volume of vulnerabilities AI could uncover

The a16z Show

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.

Wait Wait Don't Tell Me

A tick-filled odyssey | Wait Wait Don't Tell Me

A tick that comes at you is terrifying. And this is also bad. It just got your home address from an Equifax data leak.

The Business of Tech

Unworkable: the teen social media ban

attempts to police access through clumsy age verification systems and facial recognition will just upskill teenagers in VPNs, masking technologies and hacking techniques, producing a more sophisticated generation of young cyber intruders

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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.