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How quick fixes and old code in systems compound technical debt and raise hacking risks, requiring an estimated $1.52T to fix and costing the US $2.41T per year (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

    Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: How quick fixes and old code in systems compound technical debt and raise hacking risks, requiring an estimated $1.52T to fix and costing the US $2.41T per year  —  Old code piles up and… Read More »How quick fixes and old code in systems compound technical debt and raise hacking risks, requiring an estimated $1.52T to fix and costing the US $2.41T per year (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

    A look at Project Maven, the US DOD’s flagship AI effort which identifies battlefield targets, and at concerns, including adversaries poisoning training data (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

      Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: A look at Project Maven, the US DOD’s flagship AI effort which identifies battlefield targets, and at concerns, including adversaries poisoning training data  —  On a summer evening in 2020 at Fort Liberty, a sprawling US… Read More »A look at Project Maven, the US DOD’s flagship AI effort which identifies battlefield targets, and at concerns, including adversaries poisoning training data (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

      Researchers create an AI worm that can spread between generative AI agents via an “adversarial self-replicating prompt”, which can steal data or spread malware (Matt Burgess/Wired)

        Matt Burgess / Wired: Researchers create an AI worm that can spread between generative AI agents via an “adversarial self-replicating prompt”, which can steal data or spread malware  —  Security researchers created an AI worm in a test environment that… Read More »Researchers create an AI worm that can spread between generative AI agents via an “adversarial self-replicating prompt”, which can steal data or spread malware (Matt Burgess/Wired)

        iiMedia Research: China’s food delivery market reached $208B in 2023, 2.3x the size in 2020; Meituan and Ele.me employ over 10M gig workers combined (Takashi Kawakami/Nikkei Asia)

          Takashi Kawakami / Nikkei Asia: iiMedia Research: China’s food delivery market reached $208B in 2023, 2.3x the size in 2020; Meituan and Ele.me employ over 10M gig workers combined  —  Meituan, Ele.me employ a combined 10m, but conditions remain harsh… Read More »iiMedia Research: China’s food delivery market reached $208B in 2023, 2.3x the size in 2020; Meituan and Ele.me employ over 10M gig workers combined (Takashi Kawakami/Nikkei Asia)

          Supermicro, a beneficiary of the AI boom, joins the S&P 500 after its stock grew 20x+ in the past two years and 200%+ in 2024, pushing its market cap past $50B (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

            Kif Leswing / CNBC: Supermicro, a beneficiary of the AI boom, joins the S&P 500 after its stock grew 20x+ in the past two years and 200%+ in 2024, pushing its market cap past $50B  —  – Shares of Super… Read More »Supermicro, a beneficiary of the AI boom, joins the S&P 500 after its stock grew 20x+ in the past two years and 200%+ in 2024, pushing its market cap past $50B (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

            A US judge says Google must face advertisers’ antitrust lawsuit, but dismisses some claims, including those focused on ad-buying tools used by large advertisers (Reuters)

              Reuters: A US judge says Google must face advertisers’ antitrust lawsuit, but dismisses some claims, including those focused on ad-buying tools used by large advertisers  —  Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google must face advertisers’ proposed class action lawsuit claiming that it monopolizes… Read More »A US judge says Google must face advertisers’ antitrust lawsuit, but dismisses some claims, including those focused on ad-buying tools used by large advertisers (Reuters)

              Filing: the US DOE settles with bitcoin miner Riot Platforms and an industry group, and agrees to cancel its mandatory survey of energy use by crypto miners (Sarah Wynn/The Block)

                Sarah Wynn / The Block: Filing: the US DOE settles with bitcoin miner Riot Platforms and an industry group, and agrees to cancel its mandatory survey of energy use by crypto miners  —  – The Department of Energy was sued… Read More »Filing: the US DOE settles with bitcoin miner Riot Platforms and an industry group, and agrees to cancel its mandatory survey of energy use by crypto miners (Sarah Wynn/The Block)

                California’s regulator approves Waymo’s proposal to expand its fared driverless robotaxi services to parts of Los Angeles, the San Francisco Peninsula, and more (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

                  Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: California’s regulator approves Waymo’s proposal to expand its fared driverless robotaxi services to parts of Los Angeles, the San Francisco Peninsula, and more  —  Waymo received approval Friday afternoon from the California Public Utilities Commission to… Read More »California’s regulator approves Waymo’s proposal to expand its fared driverless robotaxi services to parts of Los Angeles, the San Francisco Peninsula, and more (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

                  Memos: OpenAI execs reject Musk’s claims, say OpenAI is committed to benefiting humanity and has yet to achieve AGI; Altman says the “attacks will keep coming” (Ina Fried/Axios)

                    Ina Fried / Axios: Memos: OpenAI execs reject Musk’s claims, say OpenAI is committed to benefiting humanity and has yet to achieve AGI; Altman says the “attacks will keep coming”  —  CEO Sam Altman sent a follow-up message, echoing Kwon’s… Read More »Memos: OpenAI execs reject Musk’s claims, say OpenAI is committed to benefiting humanity and has yet to achieve AGI; Altman says the “attacks will keep coming” (Ina Fried/Axios)

                    Legal experts say Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI is a stretch because handshakes and expectations are hard to enforce, but it does make a strong policy argument (Sharon Goldman/VentureBeat)

                      Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat: Legal experts say Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI is a stretch because handshakes and expectations are hard to enforce, but it does make a strong policy argument  —  The Elon Musk lawsuit filed yesterday in California against… Read More »Legal experts say Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI is a stretch because handshakes and expectations are hard to enforce, but it does make a strong policy argument (Sharon Goldman/VentureBeat)

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