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From Semiconductor Supply Chains to Dirty Bombs: Summary of the September 2021 OODA Network Member Meeting

The September monthly meeting covered a range of issues, from planning for an upcoming OODA Network wargame exercise to a recent cyber vulnerability and mitigation, future research on CISA and critical infrastructure, and recent events in France surrounding the discovery of IEDs with uranium traces.
Richer and Becker on Domestic Terrorism, Cyber, China, Iran, Russia, and Decision-Making

In February of this year, Matt Devost spoke to Rob Richer, a highly regarded advisor to international executives and global government leaders including several heads of state. In October of 2020, Bob Gourley had a conversation with Rear Admiral Paul Becker, USN (Retired). In January of 2021, Admiral Beck also took part in an OODA…
The Liberty Experience: Envision a World Where You Own and Control Your Own Data

Foresight strategy (scenario planning), as a discipline, requires setting up signal and sensemaking mechanisms to have the most unique ideas, projects, and mental models on hand when devising futures. The experience economy, or experiential learning, is a rewarding method for sensemaking. The Liberty Experience caught our eye, and we thought the OODA Loop Network would…
AI-Based Ambient Intelligence Innovation in Healthcare and the Future of Public Safety

Disaster conditions will clearly be more impactful and more frequent due to the impact of climate change. The domestic terrorism threat stateside is becoming a constant, with the impact and frequency of growing domestic U.S. political instability and public safety incidents to be determined. We will need systems that are monitoring these temporal, ephemeral ecosystems…
Disaster Response Applications: New Lessons From The Fall of Kabul and Severe Weather Events

We are entering an era when on-the-ground conditions and real-time disaster-level information flows grow in their value in the aftermath of more frequent and mounting disaster conditions. Is there a wave of democratization of access to tools and/or product commercialization ahead in this space? For now, the following are some current signals and use cases…
Omand and Medina on Disinformation, Cognitive Bias, Cognitive Traps and Decision-making

In August, Bob Gourley had a far-ranging conversation with Sir David Omand. One of the most respected intelligence professionals in the world, Omand is also the author of the book How Spies Think: Ten lessons in intelligence. In May of 2020, Bob’s OODAcast conversation was with Carmen Medina, who served 32 years in senior positions…
Smart Voting App, Removed by U.S. Tech Giants, Threatens Putin’s United Russia Party in Recent Duma Election

This most recent Russian election provides clear evidence that the Russian Government is meddling as much in their own elections, to achieve the Kremlin-designed outcome, as they have in recent American elections – with one RFE/RL headline proclaiming: “Hacking Servers. Online Blocking. Police Raids. Information Attacks. What Won’t The Kremlin Do To Stop ‘Smart Voting’?”
Cyber Espionage Likely Supporting China’s Arctic Aspirations

It is increasingly evident that China believes the timing is right for it to aggressively push its national interests. One area that often gets overlooked when looking at China’s expansionism is its interests in the Arctic. China’s interest in the area is not a secret, as it has promoted itself as a legitimate “Arctic State”…
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA), Global Supply Chains and Chinese Military-Civil Fusion (MCF)

The U.S. DoD has embarked on a strategic transformation. Central to this transformation are supply chains. Specifically, an understanding and reduction of the reliance by U.S. military systems on foreign components, subcomponents, materials, and software. “Made in America” is an objective, rectifying supply chain security concerns with American-made components, subcomponents, materials, and software. As it…
Clapper and Ashley on Joint Ops/Intel Operations, Decision-making, the History and Future of Intelligence and Cyber Threats

We started the OODAcast as a way of highlighting insights and lessons learned from leaders and decision-makers in the OODA Network. In the Spring of 2021, Bob Gourley had a conversation with General Jim Clapper and Lieutenant General Robert Ashley. Threads that emerge in these conversations include the nature and history of intelligence, the importance…
The Future of War, Information, AI Systems and Intelligence Analysis

The U.S. is in a struggle to maintain its dominance in air, land, sea, space, and cyberspace over countries with capabilities increasingly on par in all domains with that of the U.S. In addition, information (in all its forms) is the center of gravity of a broad set of challenges faced by the United States.…
Quantum Computing Use Cases and Post-Quantum Cryptography

Quantum computing is fascinating, complex, highly technical, sometimes daunting to conceptualize technological breakthrough and driver of the future marketplace. So yes, the promise of quantum computing will happen and is happening. The question is how quantum will have an impact during a growth phase in which the capital expenditure capabilities and strategic concerns are driven…
Intelligence, Afghanistan, and Hedging Bets

I am a member of OODA Loop. The few discussions that I have been able to listen to thus far were extremely informative, especially the most recent one on Afghanistan and intelligence issues. It prompted a few comments on intelligence collection and hedging bets amongst regional and great power players in Afghanistan. This article was…
Zero Trust Will Yield Zero Results Without A Risk Analysis

Over the past four years there has been an avalanche of new Zero Trust products. However during the same period there has been no measurable reduction in cyber breaches. Zero Trust is a concept where an organization has Zero Trust in a specific individual, supplier or technology that is the source of their cyber risk.…
Decision-Making Inside the CIA Counterterrorism Center Before, During and After 9/11

We started the OODAcast as a way of highlighting insights and lessons learned from leaders and decision-makers in the OODA Network including former intelligence community leaders and operators. Themes emerge throughout these interviews on topics such as how clearly the intelligence community warned of the pending attacks, the early preparedness of a response by the…

Briefs

How Small Businesses Are Using OpenAI’s New GPT-4 Turbo With Vision

Artificial intelligence company OpenAI is rolling out an upgraded version of its flagship generative AI model, GPT-4 Turbo. The new version, GPT-4 Turbo With Vision, can process images, meaning users can upload photos and videos to the model. For example, one could upload a photo of a chessboard and ask the AI to recommend the…
Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment?

Silent. Rigid. Clumsy. Henry and Jane Evans are used to awkward houseguests. For more than a decade, the couple, who live in Los Altos Hills, California, have hosted a slew of robots in their home. In 2002, at age 40, Henry had a massive stroke, which left him with quadriplegia and an inability to speak.…
Amazon CEO: “We’re deeply investing” in generative AI

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy revealed details about the company’s investments in generative AI in his annual shareholder letter published Thursday morning. It costs money to make money and before many companies can reap outsized rewards from selling new AI products and services, they are expected to outlay enormous sums to build them. From the energy required…
Adobe Is Buying Videos for $3 Per Minute to Build AI Model

Adobe Inc. has begun to procure videos to build its artificial intelligence text-to-video generator, trying to catch up to competitors after OpenAI demonstrated a similar technology. The software company is offering its network of photographers and artists $120 to submit videos of people engaged in everyday actions such as walking or expressing emotions including joy…
Biden, Japan’s Kishisa forge new partnership, eyeing China and Russia

On Wednesday, U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishisa revealed military cooperation project plans between the two countries. The projects range from topics on moon landings, to deepening alliances, and missiles. The deepening relationship between the two countries was evidenced at a joint news conference at the White House, wherein the two…
Three sons of Hamas leader Haniyeh killed in Israeli airstrike

On Wednesday, three sons of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh were killed in the Gaza Strip during an airstrike according to Haniyeh’s family. The three sons, Hazem, Amir, and Mohammad, were killed in a car bombing. The bombing occurred in Gaza’s Al-Shati camp, with four of Haniyeh’s grandchildren also killed in the attack. The Israeli military…
South Korea’s prime minister and top presidential officials offer to resign after election defeat

On Thursday, South Korea’s Prime minister and senior presidential officials offered to resign en masse. These resignation offers come following a major defeat of the conservative ruling party in Wednesday’s parliamentary elections. According to South Korean media, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo and his top advisors to South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol submitted their resignations.…
‘eXotic Visit’ Spyware Campaign Target Android Users in India and Pakistan

‘EXotic Visit’, an Android malware campaign has been targeting users located in South Asia from the Google Play Store. The cybersecurity firm Slovak has been tracking the campaign since November 2021 using the moniker Virtual Invaders. No known threat actor group is linked to the campaign. EXotic Visit is also said to be highly targeted…
Chinese firms helping military get AI chips added to US export blacklist

On Wednesday, the U.S. government official announced the addition of four Chinese companies to an export blacklist for seeking AI chips for China’s military. During a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing, an export enforcement official stated that these companies have been providing AI chips to China. AI chips are used for modernization in the Chinese military…
Russia urges restraint as Iranian threat puts Middle East on edge

Russia has urged countries in the Middle East to show restraint and warned against traveling to a region on edge. This warning comes following Iran’s promise to seek revenge for the killing of an Iranian general and six other military officers. The Iranian general and guards were killed via airstrike on an embassy compound in…
Alethea Raises $20 Million for Disinformation Detection and Mitigation Solution

This week, Alethea announced it was raising $20 million in a round of series B funding. Alethea specializes in the detection and mitigation of disinformation and other threats bringing total investment into the firm to $34 million. Alethea will use this funding to bolster marketing and sales as well as enhance its products. The company’s…
Apple Updates Spyware Alert System to Warn Victims of Mercenary Attacks

On Wednesday, Apple updated its documentation regarding its mercenary spyware notification system. The updated documentation now includes alerts to users when it appears they have been individually targeted in attacks. The specific update was a change in language from “threat notifications” that were intended to inform and aid users who have been targeted by state-sponsored…
Google brings AI-powered editing tools, like Magic Editor, to all Google Photos users for free

Google Photos is getting an AI upgrade. On Wednesday, the tech giant announced that a handful of enhanced editing features previously limited to Pixel devices and paid subscribers — including its AI-powered Magic Editor — will now make their way to all Google Photos users for free. This expansion also includes Google’s Magic Eraser, which…
Meta’s new AI chips runs faster than before

Meta promises the next generation of its custom AI chips will be more powerful and able to train its ranking models much faster. The Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA) is designed to work best with Meta’s ranking and recommendation models. The chips can help make training more efficient and inference — aka the actual…
AI-operated fighter jet will fly Air Force secretary on test run

The Air Force is betting a large part of its future air warfare on a fleet more than 1,000 autonomously operated drones, and later this spring its top civilian leader plans to climb into one of those artificial intelligence-operated warplanes and let it take him airborne. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told senators on Tuesday…
Collaborative Robotics is prioritizing ‘human problem solving’ over humanoid forms

Humanoids have sucked a lot of the air out of the room. It is, after all, a lot easier to generate press for robots that look and move like humans. Ultimately, however, both the efficacy and scalability of such designs have yet to be proven out. For a while now, Collaborative Robotics founder Brad Porter…
OpenAI and Meta ready new AI models capable of ‘reasoning’

OpenAI and Meta are on the brink of releasing new artificial intelligence models that they say will be capable of reasoning and planning, critical steps towards achieving superhuman cognition in machines. Executives at OpenAI and Meta both signalled this week that they were preparing to launch the next versions of their large language models, the…
Italian explosion: Search after deadly blast at power plant

An explosion at a hydroelectric power plant in northern Italy has resulted in three fatalities and four individuals still missing, with little hope of finding survivors due to the area’s complete flooding. The blast, which occurred underwater at the plant on Lake Suviana, caused severe burns to five people, who were airlifted to nearby hospitals.…
Zambia uncovers ‘sophisticated’ Chinese cybercrime syndicate

In Zambia, a major crackdown on internet fraud has led to the arrest of 77 individuals, including 22 Chinese nationals, following a raid on a Chinese-run company called Golden Top Support Services. The operation, conducted by various agencies including the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) and police, uncovered a sophisticated syndicate engaging in online scams. The…
France beefs up security as Paris Olympics approach

Under heightened security measures in Paris and across Europe, French police have intensified their presence following warnings of potential Islamic State (IS) attacks on European football events. This comes amidst concerns about the safety of upcoming Olympic Games in Paris and growing tensions with Russia. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin stated that security had been reinforced…
Russia floods: Ural river reaches critical level in Orenburg

Russia is grappling with a severe flooding crisis in the city of Orenburg and surrounding areas, with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov describing the situation as “very, very tense.” The Ural river’s water levels have surged beyond 10 meters (33 feet), well above its bursting point, marking the worst flooding the region has seen in 80…
530k Impacted by Data Breach at Wisconsin Healthcare Organization

Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin (GHC-SCW) has disclosed a ransomware attack that occurred on January 25, affecting over 530,000 individuals. Although no file-encrypting ransomware was deployed, the attackers exfiltrated personal and protected health information, including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and more. GHC-SCW confirmed the breach after the attackers claimed responsibility and contacted…
Sprinto Raises $20 Million for Automated Risk and Compliance Platform

Sprinto, an automated risk and compliance platform provider based in San Francisco, has secured $20 million in Series B funding, bringing its total funding to $31.8 million. The investment was led by Accel, with participation from existing investors Blume Ventures and Elevation Capital. Founded in 2020, Sprinto utilizes AI and automation to assist organizations in…
Thousands of LG TVs Possibly Exposed to Remote Hacking

Cybersecurity researchers at Bitdefender have uncovered four vulnerabilities affecting LG TVs powered by WebOS versions 4 through 7, potentially enabling remote hackers to compromise the devices. One of the flaws, CVE-2023-6317, allows unauthorized users to add new accounts to the TV, while CVE-2023-6318 enables privilege escalation to gain root access. Additionally, CVE-2023-6319 and CVE-2023-6320 permit…
Fortinet Patches Critical RCE Vulnerability in FortiClientLinux

Fortinet has released patches for a dozen vulnerabilities, including a critical remote code execution (RCE) flaw, CVE-2023-45590, affecting FortiClientLinux, which could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or commands via a malicious website. Other high-severity vulnerabilities addressed include credential protection issues in FortiOS and FortiProxy (CVE-2023-41677), arbitrary code execution in FortiClientMac (CVE-2023-45588 and CVE-2024-31492), and…
Google Expands In-House Chip Efforts in Costly AI Battle

Google is making more of its own chips, rolling out new hardware that can handle everything from YouTube advertising to big data analysis as the company tries to combat rising artificial-intelligence costs. The new chip, called Axion, adds to Google’s efforts stretching back more than a decade to develop new computing resources, beginning with specialized…
Open-source AI is booming, but OpenAI’s GPT-4 is still the big winner with corporate customers—for now

A year ago, a San Francisco gathering many called the “Woodstock of AI” brought together 5,000 devotees of “open-source” AI models—that is, where the underlying code, and sometimes the model weights and training methods, are publicly available for researchers and developers to build on. The event, hosted by open source AI hub Hugging Face and…
Google’s Gemini Pro 1.5 enters public preview on Vertex AI

Gemini 1.5 Pro, Google’s most capable generative AI model, is now available in public preview on Vertex AI, Google’s enterprise-focused AI development platform. The company announced the news during its annual Cloud Next conference, which is taking place in Las Vegas this week. Gemini 1.5 Pro launched in February, joining Google’s Gemini family of generative…
Robotics For Efficient Fulfillment

The last decade has brought a lot of innovation into warehouse operations, targeted at making it faster, more efficient and less error-prone. While historically most warehouses have relied heavily on human labor for the picking and placing of items, most warehouses today adopt some level of goods-to-person (GTP) automation. By bringing goods directly to pickers,…
Intel details Guadi 3 AI Chips at Vision 202

Intel made a slew of announcements during its Vision 2024 event today, including deep-dive details of its new Gaudi 3 AI processors, which it claims offer up to 1.7X the training performance, 50% better inference, and 40% better efficiency than Nvidia’s market-leading H100 processors, but for significantly less money. Intel also announced new branding for…
Solar Spider Spins Up New Malware to Entrap Saudi Arabian Financial Firms

The threat group behind a complex JavaScript remote access Trojan (RAT) known as JSOutProx has released a new version of the malware to target organizations in the Middle East. Resecurity, a cybersecurity services firm, is analyzing technical details of multiple instances of the malware targeting financial customers. When the malware is targeting an enterprise, it…
Change Healthcare Targeted in Second Ransomware Attack

Change Healthcare has reported that it is facing another attack, this time from ransomware gang RansomHub, only weeks after it was a victim in an ALPHV/BlackCat cyberattack. RansomHub is demanding an extortion payment for an alleged 4TB of data that was stolen from the company. If the payment is not processed in 12 days, the…
European court rules human rights violated by climate inaction

A group of Swiss women have won the first climate case victory in the European Court of Human Rights. The women claimed that their age, mostly in their 70s, and their gender made them vulnerable to the effects of heatwaves due to climate change. The court ruled that Switzerland’s efforts to meet its emission reduction…
UN says 38 dead, including children, as migrant boat sinks off Djibouti

At least 38 migrants and refugees have died after their boat sank off of the coast of Djibouti. The International Organization for Migration said that at least six other are missing and presumed dead, and that 22 survivors are being assisted by IOM representatives in Djibouti. This event adds to nearly 1,000 people who have…
TSMC boosts Joe Biden’s AI chip ambitions with $11.6bn US production deal

The world’s biggest chipmaker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, has agreed to make its most advanced products in Arizona from 2028, in a boost to White House efforts to bring semiconductor production on to home soil. TSMC will make the latest cutting-edge 2-nanometre chips in a fabrication plant, or fab, it is building in Phoenix, Arizona,…
Microsoft AI gets a new London hub fronted by former Inflection and Deepmind scientist Jordan Hoffmann

Microsoft has announced a new London hub for its recently unveiled consumer AI division. It will be fronted by Jordan Hoffmann, an AI scientist and engineer Microsoft recently picked up from high-profile AI startup Inflection AI, which Microsoft invested in last year. The news comes some three weeks after Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella unveiled a new…
How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.

In late 2021, OpenAI faced a supply problem. The artificial intelligence lab had exhausted every reservoir of reputable English-language text on the internet as it developed its latest A.I. system. It needed more data to train the next version of its technology — lots more. So OpenAI researchers created a speech recognition tool called Whisper.…
The Future of Work in the Age of Automation

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, automation is revolutionizing the way we work and interact with machines. From artificial intelligence to robotics, automation is reshaping industries, transforming job roles, and raising questions about the future of work. This article delves into the implications of automation on jobs and industries, explores the skills and roles needed…
Dimon Likens AI’s Transformational Impact to Steam Engine

JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said artificial intelligence may be the biggest issue his bank is grappling with, likened its potential impact to that of the steam engine and said the technology could “augment virtually every job.” The CEO devoted a chunk of his annual shareholder letter to the importance of…
South Korea puts Second Military Spy Satellite Successfully into Orbit

South Korea has successfully launched its second military reconnaissance satellite. Seoul’s military said in a statement that its “independent intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities have been further strengthened” by the successful launch. South Korea, which plans to launch a total of five military spy satellites by 2025, is in a race with North Korea to…
Israel Withdraws Troops From Southern Gaza as War Hits 6-Month Mark

The Israeli military said Sunday that it had withdrawn a division of ground troops from the southern Gaza Strip, as international mediators gathered with hopes of brokering a temporary cease-fire six months into the war. Israel has significantly reduced the number of troops it has on the ground in Gaza over the past several months.…
Biden and Japan’s Leader Look to Bind Ties to Outlast Them Both

When President Biden and Japan’s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, meet this week, the leaders are expected to discuss ways to entrench their countries’ alliance so it remains strong even if they are no longer around to nurture it. The leaders are expected to talk about closer military cooperation between U.S. forces based in Japan and…
How Can the Energy Sector Bolster its Resilience to Ransomware Attacks?

Since it plays a vital role in every functioning society, the energy sector has always been a prime target for state-backed cybercriminals. As cyberattacks and ransomware rates continue to increase, there is a real concern among energy providers about the operational resilience of the industry. The energy sector’s risks are driven by its reliance on…
Cybercriminal Adoption of Browser Fingerprinting

Browser fingerprinting uses a variety of client-side checks to establish browser identities, which can then be used to detect bots or other undesirable web traffic. Browser fingerprinting is used by many legitimate providers to detect bots misusing their services and other suspicious activity, but phishing site authors have also realized its benefits and are using…
Enterprise AI Security Firm TrojAI Raises $5.75M in Seed Funding

This week, TrojAI, a provider of enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) security solutions, announced a $5.75 million funding round of additional seed capital. The company says its platform helps organizations comply with benchmarks such as the OWASP AI framework as well as privacy regulations by testing models prior to deployment and protecting applications from things such…
Inside Big Tech’s underground race to buy AI training data

At its peak in the early 2000s, Photobucket was the world’s top image-hosting site. The media backbone for once-hot services like Myspace and Friendster, it boasted 70 million users and accounted for nearly half of the U.S. online photo market. Today only 2 million people still use Photobucket, according to analytics tracker Similarweb. But the…
The next evolution of AI is already here—and hiding in plain sight

Generative AI’s remarkable achievements are creating a growing misconception among executives that all previous artificial intelligence technologies will become obsolete. The resulting over-emphasis on generative AI is counterproductive, leading to the compartmentalizing of AI talent and resources. This ultimately limits AI’s potential because generative AI alone cannot solve every type of problem. That’s why the next…
OpenAI Sees ‘Tremendous Growth’ in Corporate Version of ChatGPT

OpenAI is seeing surging demand for the corporate version of ChatGPT even as it confronts a growing number of artificial intelligence companies offering similar products for the workplace. In an interview on Bloomberg Technology, OpenAI’s Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap said there are now more than 600,000 people signed up to use ChatGPT Enterprise, up…
Chinese robot maker says protectionism will not stop its march

The founder of China’s largest industrial automation company believes the key role played by the country’s robot makers in keeping global supply chains running will insulate them from rising global protectionism as they try to expand overseas. Zhu Xingming, chair and founder of Shenzhen Inovance, said it hopes to challenge incumbents — which include western…
How to detect AI deepfakes

AI-generated images are everywhere. They’re being used to make nonconsensual pornography, muddy the truth during elections and promote products on social media using celebrity impersonations. When Princess Catherine released a video last month disclosing that she had cancer, social media went abuzz with the latest baseless claim that artificial intelligence was used to manipulate the…
UN Rights Body Demands Israel be held Accountable for Possible ‘War Crimes’

The United Nations Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution calling to halt all arms sales to Israel and to hold them accountable for possible war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the Gaza Strip. Friday’s vote marked the first time that the UN’s top rights body has taken a position on the nearly…
Magento Vulnerability Exploited to Deploy Persistent Backdoor

Sansec, a cybersecurity firm, has reported that threat actors are exploiting a critical vulnerability, CVE-2024-20720, in Magento, allowing them to inject a persistent backdoor into ecommerce websites. Despite Adobe’s resolution of the flaw in February 2024, some websites remain vulnerable, with threat actors leveraging a crafted layout template in the database to inject XML code,…
Russia downs dozens of drones as Kremlin warns NATO over Ukraine

Russia has downed 53 Ukrainian drones, the majority of which targeted the southern Rostov region, the Ministry of Defense said, as the Kremlin warned that Russia and NATO are now in “direct confrontation” over Ukraine. As the warring nations continue to exchange fire, United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken said more aid is urgently…
Cybersecurity Firms Raised $2.3 Billion in Q1 2024: Report

According to Pinpoint Search Group’s Cyber Security Vendor Funding Report for Q1 2024, cybersecurity companies collectively raised $2.3 billion in funding across 77 rounds, a figure relatively consistent with the previous year’s first quarter but representing a 20% decrease from Q1 2023’s total. Notably, March saw a surge, with $1.4 billion raised, marking the first…
NIST Grants $3.6 Million to Boost US Cybersecurity Workforce

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has allocated $3.6 million in grants to tackle the cybersecurity skills shortage, with 18 education and community organizations in 15 states set to receive approximately $200,000 each to train future cybersecurity professionals. Overseen by NICE, a collaboration between government, education, and private sectors, the initiative aims…
In Other News: 100,000 Affected by CISA Breach, Microsoft AI Copilot Ban, Nuclear Site Prosecution

The cybersecurity news roundup by securityWeek compiles significant stories often overlooked, offering a comprehensive view of the cybersecurity landscape. This week’s highlights include the CISA breach affecting over 100,000 individuals, the US House banning Microsoft’s Copilot AI chatbot due to data leakage concerns, and the UK’s Sellafield nuclear waste site facing prosecution over cybersecurity failures.…
Israel Agrees to Open Erez Crossing for Gaza Aid After Biden Pressure

Israel has agreed to open another crossing and increase the flow of aid getting into Gaza after rising pressure from U.S. officials and humanitarian agencies. On Thursday, there was a tense phone call between President Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. During the call, Mr. Biden threatened to condition future support for Israel on how…
Elon Musk Says He’s Boosting Tesla Pay to Stop OpenAI From Poaching

Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said the automaker has been boosting pay for artificial intelligence engineers as it faces a war over talent. “Tesla is increasing comp (contingent on progress milestones) of our AI engineering team,” he posted on his X social media site, formerly Twitter. OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, has been…
Big tech companies form new consortium to allay fears of AI job takeovers

AI might not be coming for all jobs, but it might be coming for some. UPS’s largest layoff in its 116-year history was the result of, in part, new technologies including AI, CEO Carol Tomé said during an earnings call in February. Meanwhile, IBM plans to pause hiring for roles it thinks could soon be automated…
Apple’s electric car loss could be home robotics’ gain

For every tech success story, there are countless projects that slam headlong into the brick wall of reality. Apple’s electric vehicle ambitions are one of the most recent — and, frankly, best — examples of a project failing in spite of seeming to have everything going for it. The jury is still out on the…