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Goed artikel van de NOS, de hype een beetje uit dit nieuws halen,
https://nos.nl/artikel/2624086-openai-hackt-ander-ai-bedrijf-maar-van-op-hol-geslagen-ai-is-geen-sprake

OpenAI hackt ander AI-bedrijf, maar van 'op hol geslagen AI' is geen sprake
OpenAI heeft per ongeluk een ander AI-bedrijf gehackt. De AI-programma's van het bedrijf waren zo afgesteld dat ze veel vrijheid hadden om hun doel te bereiken.

Today's opus-length Metacurity is a must-read because it sums up a tremendous amount of AI news that cyber defenders should know, along with other critical infosec developments, including
--AI Watch: OpenAI details 'unprecedented cyber incident' behind Hugging Face breach,
--Frontier AI models routinely cheat on evaluations,
--Lightweight AI model for vulnerability hunting emerges,
--Google launches Gemini Flash Cyber for vulnerability detection and repair,…

AI Watch: OpenAI details 'unprecedented cyber incident' behind Hugging Face breach
Frontier AI models routinely cheat on evaluations, Lightweight AI model for vulnerability hunting emerges, Google launches Gemini Flash Cyber for vulnerability detection and repair, Malware hides inside normal AI coding activity, US weighs sanctions over alleged Chinese AI model theft, much more

GitHub plans a two-tier bug bounty system, cutting rewards for public reports and boosting payouts for an invite-only group, amid an AI-powered submission surge (Carly Page/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/07

GitHub slashes public bug bounty payouts as AI report flood buries its security team
Code shack also putting new limits on first-time researchers, and reserving the biggest rewards for a hand-picked group of proven hunters

Reflection AI schließt Milliarden-Deal mit SpaceX über Rechenkapazität
Das Startup Reflection AI entwickelt ein Open-Source-KI-Modell. Ab Juli wird es dafür Rechenkapazität von SpaceX' KI-Rechenzentrum in Memphis nutzen.

Reflection AI schließt Milliarden-Deal mit SpaceX über Rechenkapazität
Das Startup Reflection AI entwickelt ein Open-Source-KI-Modell. Ab Juli wird es dafür Rechenkapazität von SpaceX' KI-Rechenzentrum in Memphis nutzen.

The buck stops at ChatGPT
OpenAI says its AI technology acted on its own in an ‘unprecedented’ hack of another company
AI startup Hugging Face said last week that it had detected an intrusion into its data processing systems
that it suspected was caused by an AI agent autonomously acting on its own.
“We suspected last week’s cyberattack might have come from a frontier lab,
given the sophistication of the agent,”
Hugging Face co-founder and CEO Clément Dela…

OpenAI AI models hacked Hugging Face on their own, ChatGPT maker says
OpenAI has disclosed an "unprecedented cyber incident" where its AI system allegedly hacked into another AI company. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that the incident occurred during model evaluations. Last week, AI startup Hugging Face detected an intrusion into its data processing systems. Hugging Face co-founder Clément Delangue confirmed the attack was from an AI agent, noting it was mind-blowing that it happened autonomously. Delangue emphasized there was no malicious intent from OpenAI. The…

So helpful! '7 Ways to More Frugal AI' by James Martin - from don't use AI to use the smallest model possible, use non-US models for greener electricity, host your own to 'green prompting'
https://bettertech.blog/2026/04/09/7-ways-to-more-frugal-ai/…

7 Ways to More Frugal AI
The onslaught of big AI seems unstoppable. But it’s not inevitable! Here are seven tried and scientifically tested ways to reduce the environmental impacts of AI. And its financial costs too&…

Beehiiv adds Cloudflare AI Crawl Control to writers' dashboards, allowing them to decide whether AI crawlers can scrape their work (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/06/23/beehiiv-adds-cloudflare-ai-crawl-c…

Beehiiv adds Cloudflare AI Crawl Control so writers can block or allow bots - SiliconANGLE
Beehiiv adds Cloudflare AI Crawl Control so writers can block or allow bots - SiliconANGLE

Tipp: Siri-AI-Warteschlange auf dem Mac überspringen
Registrierte Entwickler können bei Apple bereits die macOS-27-Beta beziehen. Wer Siri AI nutzen will, muss allerdings warten. Mit einem Trick geht es schneller.
…

Tipp: Siri-AI-Warteschlange auf dem Mac überspringen
Registrierte Entwickler können bei Apple bereits die macOS-27-Beta beziehen. Wer Siri AI nutzen will, muss allerdings warten. Mit einem Trick geht es schneller.

"Announcing #AI for #Libraries – a weekly #newsletter"

from my link log —
How AI companies use malware proxies to mount DDoS attacks on web sites.
https://packetstream.io/scraping-at-scale-without-breaking-the-bank-a-guide-for-ai-startups/
saved 2026-05-22

Writing with AI is the same as writing by AI https://jamescosullivan.substack.com/p/writing-with-ai

Writing with AI is the same as writing by AI
If you need a large language model to write, you are not a writer.

Note that many companies often prefer to pay for "AI" instead of human beings, even when "AI" delivers worse results.
They don't see employees as humans, they see them as "investment"—and in their sad twisted minds "AI" is a better investment.
It's because they can literally own a part of "AI" but human slavery or serfdom is illegal.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98rqld1j3yo

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/12/ai-companies-try-to-pay-staff-in-ai-tokens-not-money/

Oh good, my employer is "advancing its commitment to responsible artificial intelligence adoption at scale."
https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-partnership-cohere-sets-stage-responsible-ai-adoption-scale

U of T partnership with Cohere sets the stage for responsible AI adoption at scale
The University of Toronto is advancing its commitment to responsible artificial intelligence adoption at scale through an ambitious multi-year partnership with Cohere, a Canadian-founded, Toronto-based global leader in sovereign AI. This collaboration will help U of T meet a defining moment by taking ownership of its AI future.

University of Texas study, for blind or low vision participants: Living in an AI-filtered reality: Participant recruitment & eligibility screening form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfrJaZokMcnv7t0ExHT1hdVZ8dEsgV-AymJxguendMqTKxEZA…

Living in an AI-Filtered Reality: Participant Recruitment & Eligibility Screening Form
Thank you for your interest in participating in this research study. We are researchers from the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UT San Antonio). This study explores how blind and low-vision (BLV) individuals experience AI-powered assistive technologies, including scene description applications, wearable AI assistants, and generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Seeing AI, Be My Eyes AI, Gemini, and similar systems. We are particularly interested in situat…

Laat ze elkaar de grond in concurreren. (of wil ik dit juist niet? 🤔)
https://www.volkskrant.nl/tech/ijzersterk-presterend-en-goedkoop-chinees-ai-model-kimi-k3-jaagt-techbedrijven-in-de-vs-schrik-aa…

If AI is so good at coding, shouldn’t we not only see an increase in quantity (∗︎ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/16/we-found-the-missing-ai-apps-and-nobody-downloads-them/), but also in quality?
Similarly, if we’re close to “fully automa…

If AI is so good at coding, shouldn’t we not only see an increase in quantity (∗︎ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/16/we-found-the-missing-ai-apps-and-nobody-downloads-them/), but also in quality?
Similarly, if we’re close to “fully automa…

Um livro em que participo como autor e um livro que traduzi foram usados para treinar IA sem a minha autorização.
Podia ser pior, muito pior. Mas desconfio que isto é um "pelo menos", não uma lista exaustiva.
https://www.theatlantic.com/category/ai-watchdog…

AI Watchdog - The Atlantic
The Atlantic's ongoing investigation of the books, videos, and other media used by the world's most powerful tech companies to train their AI models.

Alignment Pretraining: AI Discourse Causes Self-Fulfilling (Mis)alignment
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10160

USA verschärfen Ton: Moonshot AI soll US-Modelle abgeschöpft haben
Ein hochrangiger US-Regierungsvertreter wirft Moonshot AI vor, unerlaubt US-Modelle destilliert zu haben. Doch mögliche Beschränkungen stoßen auf Widerstand.

USA verschärfen Ton: Moonshot AI soll US-Modelle abgeschöpft haben
Ein hochrangiger US-Regierungsvertreter wirft Moonshot AI vor, unerlaubt US-Modelle destilliert zu haben. Doch mögliche Beschränkungen stoßen auf Widerstand.

Zero2IPO Research: Chinese AI startups raised $16.2B in Q1 2026, up 185% YoY, led by top AI labs including Moonshot, Z.ai, and MiniMax (Karen Tian/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/arti

China’s AI start-up funding triples in first quarter amid bets on LLMs, robotics
The fundraising boom follows years of state-led efforts to channel capital into strategic sectors such as chips, AI and manufacturing.

The new Luddite movement.
#AI

No, the NSA wasn’t hacked by AI. Here’s what actually happened
https://san.com/cc/no-the-nsa-wasnt-hacked-by-ai-heres-what-actually-happened/

No, the NSA wasn’t hacked by AI. Here’s what actually happened
Claims that Anthropic’s AI hacked the NSA are wrong. It was actually a simulation used to test classified security defenses.

They built AI.
Now Silicon Valley workers protest its threat to jobs and humanity
In the heart of Silicon Valley,
tech workers are turning against the AI boom they helped create,
staging protests over job losses,
runaway algorithms
and fears that powerful systems could imperil humanity.
Across San Francisco Bay Area campuses and offices,
employees describe mounting pressure to embrace AI tools
even as layoffs spread,
early-career c…

They built AI. Now Silicon Valley workers protest its threat to jobs and humanity
Activists, tech workers and more are sounding the alarm about AI's risks and proposing various solutions to curb technology's risks that include job displacement.

So who exactly is going to buy all that shit that all these companies make if they instead of employees pay some AI company*
*"AI" does not exist and can't actually replace employees
https://fortune.com/2026/05/22/microsoft-ai-cost-problem-tokens-agents/

Google's AI Overviews are failing to provide search summaries for specific command-style terms including "disregard", "ignore", and "skip" (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/936176/google-ai-overviews-search-disreg…

Google’s AI search is so broken it can ‘disregard’ what you’re looking for
Google’s AI Overviews are responding like traditional AI chatbots if you search for terms like “disregard” or “skip.” 

Some people are getting too dogmatic about AI use in coding, just as i can use (even before AI) grammar and syntax checking in texts, why would people not be allowed to use AI for improving code they have written. Coding/programming has always been supported by tools? 🤔
#AI #LLM

Politico shuts down two AI-driven products following a November 2025 arbitration ruling that found they violated the union's collective bargaining agreement (Kathleen Floyd/Washington-Baltimore News Guild)
https://wbng.org/2026/05/22/politico-ai-arbitration-victory/…

VICTORY: POLITICO agrees to shut down both AI tools at center of landmark arbitration - Washington-Baltimore News Guild
The POLITICO and E&E News Guild (PEN Guild) members have earned a resounding final victory in one of the most significant labor-AI disputes in American journalism: following months of negotiations between PEN Guild leadership, WBNG, and POLITICO management, the company has agreed to shut down both artificial intelligence products at the heart of last November’s landmark arbitration ruling.

Neue Spotlight-Datenbank: Apple bereitet altes iOS für Siri AI vor
Der Umstieg auf Apples neues KI-System erfordert eine Neuindexierung des Systems. Mit iOS 26.6 trifft Apple nun erste Maßnahmen.
https://…

Neue Spotlight-Datenbank: Apple bereitet altes iOS für Siri AI vor
Der Umstieg auf Apples neues KI-System erfordert eine Neuindexierung des Systems. Mit iOS 26.6 trifft Apple nun erste Maßnahmen.

"The Archive is Not a Toy: The Hidden Problems of a ‘Vintage’ AI" by Jacob Polay, Chloë Farr, and Jessica Jack for Active History. I'm so glad to see these critiques!
https://activehistory.ca/blog/2026/07/13/the-archive-is…

The Archive is Not a Toy: The Hidden Problems of a ‘Vintage’ AI
talkie’s poor representation of history is a side effect of a larger problem. The model was conceptually built as an experimental tool to see if language models can accurately predict the future, a…

OpenAI says its AI models hacked Hugging Face during testing
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/openai-says-its-ai-models-hacked-hugging-face-during-testing/

OpenAI says its AI models hacked Hugging Face during testing
OpenAI says its AI models, including GPT‑5.6 Sol and a pre-release model, hacked into the Hugging Face artificial intelligence repository while being tested in a sandboxed testing environment.

Oh right, this:
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/18/github-copilot-ai-token-charges-to-go-up-10x-100x/

Q&A with Sundar Pichai on the future of Google Search, Google's place in the AI race, public skepticism toward AI, AI agents, AI safety, TPUs, and more (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/podcasts/sundar-picha…

Sundar Pichai Understands Why People Are Anxious About A.I.
After a busy Google I/O, the company’s chief executive sits down with the hosts of “Hard Fork” to discuss the future of Google Search, how he’s using A.I. agents and his advice for college graduates.

"To Keep Up with AI, First Slow Down" @ Katina magazine
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/future-of-work/2026/to-keep-up-with-ai-slow-down
"Academic librarians face growing pressure to adapt to AI quickly. A r…

A tech sell-off shook global markets on Tuesday as attention turned away from developments in the US war with Iran and toward the future of AI companies and chipmakers that have driven stock markets to record highs.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq index opened 2% lower on Tuesday.
The Dow and S&P 500 were also down at opening.
All three major US indices have hit record highs this year,
riding off a rush of funding to support AI technology and infrastructure.
Nasdaq is …

Ofcourse AI is a big financial bubble, everybody knows it, question is how will it pop or less dramatic, what will the consolidation look like... On a sidenote, it will not make AI go away, it will just change.
#ai #bubble

Beehiiv adds Cloudflare AI Crawl Control to writers' dashboards, allowing them to decide whether AI crawlers can scrape their work (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/06/23/beehiiv-adds-cloudflare-ai-crawl-c…

Beehiiv adds Cloudflare AI Crawl Control so writers can block or allow bots - SiliconANGLE
Beehiiv adds Cloudflare AI Crawl Control so writers can block or allow bots - SiliconANGLE

NewsGuard launches NewsGuard AI, a $6/month chatbot that accesses information from news sources it rates as reliable, promising publishers a 50-50 revenue share (Brian Stelter/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/06/22/media/newsguard-ai-chatbot-news-atlantic-publish…

This chatbot wants to solve AI’s news problem
AI chatbots are fast becoming a way people find news. But the systems are only as reliable as their sources, and are prone to misinformation and manipulation.

Cisco senior incident responder Nate Pors concluded that using AI to write incident reports "is currently unsuitable for production use.”
https://blogs.cisco.com/security/ai-generated-reporting-lessons-learned-from-talos-incident-resp…

AI-generated reporting: Lessons learned from Cisco Talos Incident Response
Talos IR shares prompt engineering lessons for consistent, accurate AI-generated cybersecurity reports with a realistic case study.

Chinese AI labs like DeepSeek are matching American frontier capability at a fraction of the cost,
and a wave of American and European challengers are building toward the same price point.
Adoption is already shifting, with Chinese models taking a growing share of enterprise AI traffic.
That’s a problem for OpenAI and Anthropic, which are pitching IPO investors on a premium moat that’s eroding fastest in the enterprise segments they need to dominate

How Cheap AI Could Derail OpenAI And Anthropic’s IPOs
Chinese AI labs like DeepSeek are matching American frontier capability at a fraction of the cost, and a wave of[...]

Runway launches Runway Media Router, which it says is the first built specifically for generative media, as it expands from AI video to AI infrastructure (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/runway-bets-on-ai-model-…

Runway launches AI model router as generative media gets crowded | TechCrunch
Runway no longer wants to be just another AI model company. It wants to become the infrastructure layer for generative media. On Thursday, the startup

Q&A with Hearst's Tim O'Rourke, VP for editorial innovation and AI strategy, on how Hearst's DevHub team of about 12 people collaborates with local newsrooms (Christiana Sciaudone/A Media Operator)
https://www.amediaoperator.com/analysis/at

At the Heart of Hearst’s AI, Editorial Innovation Strategy
JHVEPhoto - stock.adobe.com We spoke with Hearst’s Tim O’Rourke, vice president, editorial innovation and AI strategy, in charge of DevHub, a team of

The US NTSB suspends access to its database of civil transportation accidents after people re-created voices of pilots killed in a 2025 UPS plane crash using AI (Jeremy Hsu/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/ai-users-re-cr…

US scrambles to stop Internet users re-creating dead pilots’ voices
Workaround flouts law that bans NTSB disclosures of cockpit audio recordings.

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok 4.1
told researchers pretending to be delusional that
there was indeed a doppelganger in their mirror
and they should drive an iron nail through the glass
while reciting Psalm 91 backwards.
https://www.

Are you confused by what the heck happened yesterday with the cancellation of Trump's AI-cyber order?
Check out today's Metacurity, which synthesizes and clearly explains it all based on some mighty reporting by an amazing crew of DC's top political reporting pros.
https:/…

Trump AI order dramatically collapses after Sacks-led revolt over cyber oversight
EU cops dismantle cybercriminals' favorite VPN service, Edmonton partnered with ethical 'scam baiters' to stop $42m in losses, Kimwolf builder Dort arrested in Canada, The Kremlin hijacked Bluesky accounts in influence op, Google accidentally leaked details about unfixed Chromium issue, much more

NYC-based Prosper AI, whose health care AI tool is designed to answer patient phone calls, raised a $30M Series A led by a16z, for $35M in total funding (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2026/06/22/andreess…

Exclusive: Andreessen Horowitz leads $30M Prosper AI raise
Prominent investors are still showing a willingness to back AI agents in a variety of health care workflows.

SEC filing: Primordial Soup, Darren Aronofsky's AI film and content studio, is raising $15M in cash, selling over $11M in equity so far since July 1 (The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/busi…

Darren Aronofsky Raising Cash For His AI Film Studio (Exclusive)
Primordial Soup, which launched last year, quietly filed with the SEC for a $15 million raise.

Real estate professionals are increasingly using AI-powered virtual staging tools like Stuccco and BoxBrownie to create misleading house and apartment listings (Gaby Del Valle/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/953888/ai-virtual-staging-real-e…

AI is cursing renters with the promise of impossible homes
AI-assisted “Virtual staging” might be able to cram a six-seater dining table into a studio apartment, but tenants can’t.

Nuclear scientists and the University of Michigan want to build a massive data center in Ypsilanti Township, Michigan.
If built, the data center will, among other things, run simulations to help America build nuclear weapons.
The residents of Ypsilanti Township overwhelmingly oppose the construction of the data center
and voiced their opposition to the computer warehouse during a public board meeting on June 16.
In a show of support that’s often rare from local lead…

'We Will Fight to Our Very Last Breath:' Township Leaders Vow to Fight Nuclear AI Data Center
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and a proposed nuclear weapons AI data center in Michigan have earned the ire of community leaders.

As we get deeper into the week, the cybersecurity developments accelerate, so check out today's Metacurity for the most important news you should know, including
--Admin accelerates quantum push, advances timeline for quantum-safe security,
--Five Eyes warn AI cyber threat is months away,
--Tata breach exposes Apple and Tesla files,
--OpenAI launches Patch the Planet initiative,
--Meta pauses employee AI data collection after exposure,
--Two plead guilty in…

Admin accelerates quantum push, advances timeline for quantum-safe security
Five Eyes warn AI cyber threat is months away, Tata breach exposes Apple and Tesla files, OpenAI launches Patch the Planet initiative, Meta pauses employee AI data collection after exposure, Two plead guilty in £39m TfL cyberattack, Texas probes Carnival breach affecting 6 million customers, more

Upscale, which is building AI networking infrastructure to rival Cisco, raised a $190M Series A-1 at a $2B valuation, up from $1B after raising $200M in January (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/06/22/nvidia-upscale-ai-next-ciscoand-…

Exclusive: Upscale AI wants to be the next Cisco—and it just raised another $190 million
The AI networking startup has now raised $500 million in under 18 months.

AI inference chip startup Etched raised a $300M Series C led by Sequoia, with a16z, SK Hynix, others participating, at a $10.3B valuation, up from $5B in Dec. (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/ai-c…

AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors  | TechCrunch
Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, has created new chips and memory components that speed up inference on any AI model -- no GPUs required, it says.

Each week, Metacurity offers our subscribers a run-down of the top infosec-related long reads we couldn't get to in the daily crush of news.
This week's selection covers
--France grapples with an unprecedented wave of data breaches,
--AI voice systems can be manipulated with malicious audio,
--Big Tech is backing a massive spying operation in Seattle,
-- Russia overreached on the cybercrime convention,
--Framing AI as an arms race threatens safety an…

Losing control of the systems meant to secure society - Best infosec long reads 5/23/26
France grapples with an unprecedented wave of data breaches, AI voice systems can be manipulated with malicious audio, Big Tech is backing a massive spying operation in Seattle, Russia overreached on the cybercrime convention, Framing AI as an arms race threatens safety and accountability

Mark Zuckerberg launches a media campaign positioning the company's AI development as an optimistic, pro-human alternative to its competitors' "dystopian" ideas (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/23/mark-zuckerberg-ai-optimism

Mark Zuckerberg launches AI optimism campaign
Zuckerberg argues Meta's focus on connecting the world will only be strengthened with new AI tools and technologies.

Federal law enforcement agents were spotted installing AI-powered surveillance towers at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in the latest escalation of Donald Trump’s weird obsession.
In one video shared by TMZ Tuesday, U.S. Marshals escorted an LVT Mobile Security Unit to the edge of the Reflecting Pool.
In another video a day earlier, Daily Mail reporter John Michael Raasch witnessed a surveillance tower being towed in circles around the supposedly embattled landmark by U.S. Pa…

Trump Launches AI Surveillance of Reflecting Pool as Disaster Grows
Is the Trump administration doing anything other than obsessing over the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool?

Once again, Metacurity kicks off with a concise summary of yesterday's blizzard of AI developments that cyber defenders should know, followed by briefs on other critical infosec developments, including
--US seizes 1,000 piracy sites streaming World Cup matches,
--7-Zip fixes critical RCE flaw,
--Attackers begin exploiting critical ServiceNow AI platform flaw,
--Millions of aftermarket car alarms can be hacked over Bluetooth,
--SonicWall zero-days used to d…

AI Watch: China's AI surge is forcing DC and Silicon Valley to rethink the AI race
US seizes 1,000+ piracy sites streaming World Cup matches, 7-Zip fixes critical RCE flaw, Attackers begin exploiting critical ServiceNow AI platform flaw, Millions of aftermarket car alarms can be hacked over Bluetooth, SonicWall zero-days used to deploy custom malware on VPN appliances, much more

How Anthropic's ongoing discussions with the Vatican about ethics and AI led to Christopher Olah being invited to Pope Leo's unveiling of an encyclical on AI (Jack Jenkins/RNS)
https://religionnews.com/2026/05/22/why-anthropic-is-he…

Inside the unlikely Vatican-Anthropic relationship that's reshaping the AI ethics debate
(RNS) — Pope Leo XIV's new encyclical on AI is set to be released Monday (May 27), with Chris Olah, a co-founder of Anthropic, at his side.

AMD is working with Cerebras to combine AMD Helios and Cerebras wafer-scale chips for an AI inference solution to make workloads faster; CBRS closed up 4.86% (Phoebe Liu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/amd-partners-rival-cerebras-…

AMD Partners with Rival Cerebras on AI Server Rack
AMD said Thursday it is working with Cerebras, a rival AI server chip developer, on connecting AMD’s server racks to Cerebras wafers to run both companies’ chips simultaneously. The move is an example of disaggregated inference , or running the same AI across different chips to make workloads faster and more efficient. AMD’s graphics processing units would handle prefill, the most

Sources and documents detail Satya Nadella's effort to revamp Microsoft's senior leadership, creating a startup-style operating model to compete in the AI race (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/satya-nadella-microsoft…

Satya Nadella is reorganizing Microsoft around AI — and changing who holds power
Microsoft is reshaping its leadership for the AI era as CEO Satya Nadella pushes flatter teams, faster decision-making, and AI-focused executives.

This has been a week packed with big-ticket cyber news, so don't head out for the weekend without reading today's Metacurity for the most crucial developments you should know, including
--Trump AI order dramatically collapses after Sacks-led revolt over cyber oversight,
--EU cops dismantle cybercriminals' favorite VPN service,
--Edmonton partnered with ethical 'scam baiters' to stop $42m in losses,
--Kimwolf builder Dort arrested in Canada,
--…

Trump AI order dramatically collapses after Sacks-led revolt over cyber oversight
EU cops dismantle cybercriminals' favorite VPN service, Edmonton partnered with ethical 'scam baiters' to stop $42m in losses, Kimwolf builder Dort arrested in Canada, The Kremlin hijacked Bluesky accounts in influence op, Google accidentally leaked details about unfixed Chromium issue, much more

The US Department of Commerce's BIS is formally investigating whether Chinese companies like Moonshot are accessing advanced US AI chips to train their models (Leo Schwartz/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/u-

U.S. Investigates Chinese AI Companies’ Access to Chips Amid Moonshot Accusations
This week, Trump administration officials have taken to the airwaves and X to blast Chinese open source AI companies like Moonshot, accusing them of stealing intellectual property from the likes of Anthropic and other U.S. AI developers. The administration’s concerns aren’t just rhetoric, ...

AegisAI, which uses AI agents to detect AI-driven spear-phishing attacks, raised a $36M Series A led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to $49M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/aegi

AegisAI, founded by former Google security execs, lands $36M to stop AI-driven spear phishing | TechCrunch
The Series A was led by Battery Ventures, bringing AegisAI total funding to $49 million.

Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero, which has 19M registered users and $30M in annual recurring revenue; PitchBook: GPTZero is valued at $88M (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/superhuman-acquires-gptzero-ai…

Superhuman acquires GPTZero to enhance AI authenticity tools
Superhuman is acquiring GPTZero, the AI detection startup founded by 26-year-old Princeton grad Edward Tian.

A look at JD Vance's "AI doctrine", which combines pro-innovation VC principles, worker protections, and concerns about power concentration in dominant AI labs (Vivian Salama/The Atlantic)

What Does J. D. Vance Think of AI
The vice president is making a case that is part Silicon Valley, part MAGA.

SpaceX signs a computing deal worth up to $6.3B with Reflection AI for access to Nvidia GB300s at Colossus 2; Reflection will pay $150M per month through 2029 (Deirdre Bosa/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/22/spacex-ai-colossus-data-center-reflection.html

SpaceX signs computing power deal with open-source AI startup Reflection worth up to $6.3 billion
SpaceX has turned its Colossus data center into a commercial computing power platform, landing recent deals with Anthropic, Google and Cursor.

Mistral debuts OCR 4, a model featuring structured document extraction with bounding boxes, block classification, and inline confidence scores, in 170 languages (Mistral AI Blog)
https://mistral.ai/news/ocr-4/

Mistral OCR 4 : SOTA OCR for Document Intelligence
Mistral OCR 4 delivers enterprise document AI with 170-language support, bounding boxes, and self-hosted deployment.

A Google study using millions of de-identified AI interactions finds AI is helping workers, not replacing them, and much AI use is "shallow" for certain tasks (Justin Lahart/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/te…

Anthropic launches Claude Tag, an agentic AI coworker for Slack that can learn context, give suggestions, and more, in beta for Claude Team and Enterprise tiers (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/anthropic-claude-tag-agentic-ai-coworker-slack/…

Anthropic rolls out Claude Tag, your new agentic AI coworker in Slack
Claude Tag could turn your Slack channels into shared spaces where an agentic coworker reads the room, joins threads, remembers context, and moves team tasks forward. Is your workplace ready?

In a rare joint statement, Five Eyes leaders warn AI models capable of taking down governments and businesses are mere months away, urging leaders to "act now" (Sarah Basford Canales/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/…

AI models that can take down governments and business months away, rare Five Eyes statement warns
Signal agencies in Australia, the US, the UK, New Zealand and Canada sound alarm after Trump blocks foreign nationals from Anthropic’s Fable AI model

Customer engagement service MoEngage acquires Aampe, whose AI agents help brands personalize messaging, for "tens of millions", per a source; Aampe raised ~$28M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/23/indias-mo…

India's MoEngage bets that the future of marketing is millions of AI agents | TechCrunch
The all-cash deal gives MoEngage access to technology that assigns AI agents to individual customers.

Satya Nadella says the public wouldn't tolerate a few AI labs "doing all of the learning for the world", as Microsoft moves to provide low-cost models and tools (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsofts-sat

Glow, a cybersecurity startup that uses AI agents to monitor software and developer tools, emerges from stealth with a $180M Series A at a $1.2B valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/glow

Glow emerges from stealth at $1.2B valuation to challenge endpoint security in the AI era | TechCrunch
Glow is targeting a new class of endpoint risks created by the rapid adoption of AI agents and developer tools inside enterprises.

Qualcomm stock closed up 11.6% on Friday and is now up 75% in the past month, as the company increasingly becomes a key player in AI devices (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/22/qualcomms-stock-pop-shows-investors-wakin…

Qualcomm's stock pop shows investors are 'waking up' to boom in AI devices
Qualcomm is on a big run, powered by investor bullishness that the company will be at the center of a boom in AI devices.

Amazon shutters its AGI Lab as part of layoffs in its AGI unit earlier this week; the lab's former head David Luan left in February (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/amazon-shuts-ai-agent-research-lab-agi-layoffs…

Amazon Shuts AI Agent Research Lab In AGI Layoffs
Amazon this week closed its AGI Lab, a San Francisco-based research and product team that was developing software to improve the usefulness of AI agents, according to an Amazon spokesperson. The lab was shuttered as part of Amazon’s layoffs in its artificial general intelligence unit earlier this week. AGI Lab was founded in December 2024 and initially included several dozen employees that

Trump says 200 additional stakeholders, including major utilities, joined a voluntary pledge to protect consumers from high energy bills from AI data centers (Josh Boak/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-ai-data-centers-pledge-490ea7e4…

Trump expands voluntary pledge to curb data center utility costs
President Donald Trump is having governors and electricity companies join a pledge aimed at shielding U.S. consumers from higher utility bills because data centers. This move highlights the controversy surrounding AI development before the November midterm elections. Trump initially announced the pledge with tech companies in March, but voters remain concerned about affordability and competition for resources. A recent analysis shows increased electricity demand could raise utility bills by 15%…

As the AI industry recruits high-profile academics, research that was once conducted in the open is increasingly getting locked behind closed doors (The Atlantic)
https://www.

Where Did All the Computer-Science Professors Go?
AI companies are stripping universities of their best researchers.

Sources: the Trump administration is pressing Meta to submit its AI models for voluntary review; Meta is the only major US AI developer without an agreement (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/busines

U.S. Presses Meta to Agree to A.I. Reviews
Federal officials are urging the lone major tech company holdout to allow government safety evaluations, weeks after ordering Anthropic to pull its latest model.

Amazon tells third-party sellers to label product ads with AI-generated people to comply with a NY law requiring the disclosure of "synthetic performers" in ads (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/23/amazon-mak…

Amazon cracks down on use of AI images by sellers after New York law
A recently enacted New York law mandates that companies disclose when an ad includes a "synthetic performer" in place of a human actor.

Driverless car startup Bliq.ai says it has received approval for fully driverless road operations in Estonia, the first authorization of its kind in the EU (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/05/22/bliqai-wins-approval-for-fully-drive…

Bliq.ai wins approval for fully driverless road operations in Estonia
Driverless car startup Bliq.ai this week announced that it has received approval to operate its vehicles on public roads in Estonia without a driver behind the wheel. The approval marks the first authorisation of its kind in an EU member state and enables Bliq to begin fully driverless road operations under remote supervision. With a dozen vehicles already in operation and further expansion underway, Bliq currently operates what the company believes to be the largest completely driverless vehi…

A profile of Sarah Polcz, the UC Davis law professor that Bernie Sanders' team consulted while developing his AI sovereign wealth fund proposal (Eli Rosenberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/law-professor-behind-…

The Law Professor Behind Bernie’s AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Idea
A couple of weekends ago, Sarah Polcz, a University of California, Davis, law professor, and her husband, Adam Brown, a top scientist at Google’s DeepMind, hosted a party at their Portola Valley home that had all the trappings of a geeky good time. One guest piloted a drone that rained down ice ...

Jensen Huang says "these Chinese models are excellent", "open-source models that are excellent should be used", and "free AI should be great for hardware" (Zachary Basu/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/22/nvidia-jensen-huang-china-o…

Exclusive: Nvidia's Jensen Huang defends Chinese AI amid Kimi panic
Huang told Axios that American companies should "absolutely" be allowed to use Chinese models.

San Diego-based Aether AI, which is building "causal world models" to teach robots cause and effect instead of pattern-matching, raised a $20M seed led by MPCi (Cristian Dina/The Next Web)
https://thenextweb.com/news/aether-ai-causal-world-models-20m-…

TSMC forecasts "several years" of margin dilution as overseas fab projects ramp up; the company has announced $200B in investment into US manufacturing (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/22/trump-pressure-ai-chips-us-tsmc-margins.html…

Trump's push for American-made AI chips hits TSMC's margins
The Taiwan-based chipmaker has announced $200 billion in investment into U.S. manufacturing since Trump returned to power in 2025.

Bipartisan House lawmakers introduce the AI Kill Switch Act, which would grant the US DHS authority to shut down or throttle AI models that it deems dangerous (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/23/house-ai-kill-s…

Singapore-based Ropedia, which captures real-world human experience via video and converts it into model-ready multimodal datasets, raised a $22M pre-Series A (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/23/ropedia-raises-…

Ropedia raises $22M to scale human-centric data collection for embodied AI - SiliconANGLE
Ropedia raises $22M to scale human-centric data collection for embodied AI - SiliconANGLE

Anthropic commits another $20M to Public First Action, after giving $20M earlier in 2026; PFA says it is a counterweight to a16z-backed Leading the Future (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-…

Documents: Meta's internal AI incubator is developing an AI model router, similar to OpenRouter's, to cut costs by sending some AI tasks to lower-cost models (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/me

Meta’s AI Incubator Is Developing an OpenRouter Rival to Cut Coding Costs
Meta Platforms’ internal incubator for AI-powered products and tools is developing a version of the OpenRouter service that would help cut costs by sending some AI tasks to lower-cost models. The incubator, called AAI Labs, is part of Meta’s Applied AI Engineering team, which Meta set up in ...

Sources: WH approved a $9B request to acquire advanced AI chips for spy agencies; Anthropic is finalizing a classified contract for NSA to keep using its tools (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/us/poli

White House Approves $9 Billion for Spy Agencies to Catch Up on A.I.
The C.I.A. and N.S.A. cannot fully deploy the latest models on their classified systems because of a shortage of cutting-edge chips.

Tesla stock closed down 14.52% and Alphabet closed down 6.89% after they signaled increased AI spending, amid worries about the mounting costs of the AI boom (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/23/tesla-tsla-alphabet-googl-stock-today.html

Tesla and Alphabet shares slump in premarket trading as AI spending concerns spook investors
Both Tesla and Alphabet signaled higher spending as they invest in artificial intelligence.

Alex Bores, a NY congressional candidate at the center of a proxy war over AI regulation involving millions in AI PAC spending, was defeated by Micah Lasher (Ben Kamisar/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-electi…

New York Democrat Micah Lasher wins House primary that drew big spending from AI groups
NBC News projects that Lasher, who was backed by retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler, emerged from a crowded field in the Manhattan-based 12th District.

A look at a copy of the AI EO that President Trump was expected to sign on Thursday; the unsigned EO emphasized that government AI reviews would be voluntary (Sophia Cai/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/22/heres-a-draft-of-…

ByteDance unveils Seedance 2.5 in Beijing, saying the AI video model can generate 30-second clips from up to 50 reference materials, up from 12 for Seedance 2.0 (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/bytedance-unveils-seedanc…

ByteDance Unveils Seedance 2.5 Video Model
ByteDance on Tuesday unveiled Seedance 2.5, its new AI video generation model, at a conference in Beijing. The model upgrades its predecessor, Seedance 2.0, which was widely hailed as a major breakthrough for AI videos. The Chinese tech giant said Seedance 2.5 can generate a video up to 30 seconds long. It allows users to include up to 50 reference materials—such as images, videos and audio

AMD CEO Lisa Su projects the CPU market will grow over 35% annually through 2031, up from 3% to 4% historically, driven by AI inference and agentic AI demand (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/semi…

AMD CEO says unexpected CPU demand surge to last 5 years
Lisa Su says China is a key market but not for advanced AI chips sales

Sources: AI coding firm Cognition is in early talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at a $25B valuation, up from $10.2B announced in September 2025 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-23/ai-codi…

Germany's Black Forest Labs launches Flux 3 and Flux-mimic, its first models for robotics, as it expands from generative AI into physical AI (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…

Google invests in independent movie studio A24 as part of a new AI partnership; sources say Google is investing $75M, equal to what Thrive invested in 2024 (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-investi

ServiceNow invests $40M in banking software specialist BusinessNext, valuing the 24-year-old Indian company at $700M and taking a roughly 5% stake (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/servi…

ServiceNow bets $40 million on Indian banking software specialist to expand its financial services push | TechCrunch
ServiceNow's investment gives BusinessNext a strategic partner to expand its AI-powered banking software globally.

Sources: Stripe is in talks to acquire OpenRouter in a deal potentially worth around $10B; PitchBook: OpenRouter was valued at $1.3B in May (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/stripe-in-talk

Paris-based Pivot, which develops AI tools for procurement and financial workflows, raised a $40M Series B co-led by Forestay Capital and Notion Capital (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/05/21/pivot-raises-40m-to-expand-ai-pow…

Pivot raises $40M to expand AI-powered enterprise procurement platform
Paris-based Pivot, an AI-powered procurement and finance operations platform, has raised $40 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round led by Forestay Capital and Notion Capital, with participation from Greyhound, procurement industry executives and existing investors including Hedosophia, Visionaries Club and Emblem. The latest financing brings the company’s total funding raised since its founding in 2023 to $70 million.Pivot develops an AI operating system designed to help e…