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Four start-ups lead China’s race to match OpenAI’s ChatGPT
Four Chinese generative artificial intelligence start-ups have been valued at between $1.2bn and $2.5bn in the past three months, leading a pack of more than 260 companies vying to emulate the su...
https://www.oodaloop.com/briefs/2024/05/03/four-start-ups-lead-chinas-race-to-match-openais-chatgpt/
Japan’s Kishida unveils a framework for global regulation of generative AI
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida unveiled an international framework for regulation and use of generative AI on Thursday, adding to global efforts on governance for the rapidly advancing tec...
Microsoft taps Sanctuary AI for general-purpose robot research
Microsoft, it seems, is hedging its bets when it comes to general-purpose robotics AI. At the end of February, the Windows maker spearheaded a massive $675 million Series B in Bay Area-based Figu...
Who Is On The AI Team?
It seems that nowadays everyone is becoming an “AI expert” because they have done some prompt engineering or played around with AI tools that help them create music. Everyone now considers th...
https://www.oodaloop.com/briefs/2024/05/03/who-is-on-the-ai-team/
Inside the AI research boom
China leads the U.S. as a top producer of research in more than half of AI’s hottest fields, according to new data from Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CS...
https://www.oodaloop.com/briefs/2024/05/03/inside-the-ai-research-boom/
Microsoft Warns of ‘Dirty Stream’ Vulnerability in Popular Android Apps
Microsoft has issued a warning regarding a newly discovered attack method dubbed Dirty Stream, which exploits a vulnerability pattern related to path traversal in Android applications. The vulner...
Horizon3.ai Introduces AI-Assisted Service to Prioritize and Patch Vulnerabilities Faster
Horizon3.ai has introduced a Rapid Response service to its NodeZero SaaS-based penetration testing platform, aiming to proactively prevent malicious attacks by swiftly addressing critical vulnera...
ArcaneDoor Espionage Campaign Targeting Cisco Firewalls Linked to China
The cyberespionage campaign called ArcaneDoor, targeting Cisco firewalls with two zero-day vulnerabilities, is suspected to be the work of a Chinese threat actor, according to Censys. Cisco’s T...
Botnet Disrupted by FBI Still Used by Russian Spies, Cybercriminals
The botnet utilized by APT28, a cyberespionage group linked to Russia’s GRU, consisted not only of Ubiquiti Edge OS routers but also included Raspberry Pi and other Linux devices. The cleanup o...
China Trying to Develop World ‘Built on Censorship and Surveillance’
China is exporting its model of digital authoritarianism abroad with the help of its far-reaching tech industry and massive infrastructure projects, offering a blueprint of “best practices” t...
Blinken Turns Up Pressure on Hamas to Accept Gaza Cease-Fire Deal
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken delivered twin messages to Hamas and Israel on Wednesday, pressing Hamas to accept a cease-fire proposal while at the same time urging Israeli leaders to put ...
Turkey Says It Halts Trade With Israel Over Gaza Aid Access
Turkey has halted exports and imports to and from Israel, the Turkish Ministry of Trade says, because of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. “Export and import transactions related to Israel have ...
Israeli Officials Weigh Sharing Power With Arab States in Postwar Gaza
For months, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has avoided detailed public discussion about Gaza’s postwar future. Behind the scenes, however, senior officials in his office have been ...
NSA Artificial Intelligence Security Center – and Global IC Partners – on Deploying Secure AI Systems
This Cybersecurity Information Sheet (CSI) is the first of its kind release from the NSA Artificial Intelligence Security Center (AISC) – “intended to support National Security System owners ...
Harnessing the OODA Loop in Business: Insights from Jamie Dimon’s Leadership at JPMorgan Chase
In his annual letter to shareholders CEO of JPMorgan Chase Jamie Dimon extolled the virtues of the OODA (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) Loop decision-making model developed by military strategist ...
How Companies Overhype Artificial Intelligence
Although I firmly believe AI is a hugely transformative technology that will change the world in many ways, it’s also clear that there is a lot of hype and hot air around the subject! It’s so...
https://www.oodaloop.com/briefs/2024/05/02/how-companies-overhype-artificial-intelligence/
Microsoft CEO Pledges $2.2 Billion in Latest Asian AI Investment
Microsoft Corp. will invest $2.2 billion to build digital infrastructure in Malaysia, the latest in a series of big-ticket bets on Asia’s rising prominence as a technology market. The company p...
How good is OpenAI’s Sora video model — and will it transform jobs?
OpenAI has been showcasing Sora, its artificial intelligence video-generation model, to media industry executives in recent weeks to drum up enthusiasm and ease concerns about the potential for t...
Natural language boosts LLM performance in coding, planning and robotics
Large language models (LLMs) are becoming increasingly useful for programming and robotics tasks, but for more complicated reasoning problems, the gap between these systems and humans looms large...
Powerful New Chatbot Disappears as Mysteriously as It Arrived
A mysterious new AI chatbot called “gpt2-chatbot” turned heads this week after it became available on a major large language model benchmarking site, LMSYS Org. No one knows where it came fro...
US Official Urges China, Russia to declare only humans, not AI, control nuclear weapons
On Thursday, a senior U.S. official pleaded that both China and Russia match U.S. declarations promising that artificial intelligence would never make decisions on nuclear weapons. Paul Dean, an ...
Russian Hackers Target Industrial Systems in North America, Europe
Following several attacks on industrial control systems (ICS) by pro-Russian hacktivists, government agencies are issuing security warnings. Government agencies from Canada, the United States, an...
Deepfake of Principal’s Voice of the Latest Case of AI Being Used for Harm
Last week, a criminal case involving artificial intelligence came out of a Maryland High School, wherein a principal was framed as a racist from a fake recording. According to authorities in Balt...
Ex-NSA Employee Sentenced to 22 Years for Trying to Sell U.S. Secrets to Russia
A former U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) employee was sentenced to almost 22 years in prison. The employee’s prison sentence was made on account of attempting to transfer classified documen...
Bitcoin Forensic Analysis Uncovers Money Laundering Clusters and Criminal Proceeds
Forensic analysis of a graph depicting Bitcoin blockchain transaction data has revealed illicit activity and money laundering clusters. The forensic analysis also detected criminal proceeds from ...
Netanyahu vows to invade Rafah ‘with or without a deal’ as cease-fire talks with Hamas continue
On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced plans to launch an incursion into Rafah. Rafah is a city in southern Gaza, where there are currently hundreds of thousands of Pales...
Portuguese-flagged ship is hit far in Arabian Sea, raising concerns over Houthi rebel capabilities
A Portuguese-flagged container ship was attacked via drone in the Arabian Sea for which the Houthis claimed responsibility. The Houthis attacked the MSC Orion last Friday, occurring around 600 ...
Russia breached global chemical weapons ban in Ukraine war, US says
On Wednesday, the United States accused Russia of violating the international ban on the use of chemical weapons. This accusation comes after Russia deployed chloropicrin, a choking agent, agai...
The State of the Space Industrial Base
Along with the two other baseline strategic documents we have featured here – Space Force’s Inaugural U.S. Commercial Space Strategy and DoD’s Commercial Space Integration Strategy – th...
https://www.oodaloop.com/ooda-original/2024/05/02/the-state-of-the-space-industrial-base/
Speculative Design: Electric Vertical Take-Off/Landing (“eVTOLs”) Air Taxis – aka Flying Cars – are Taking Off
According to the Executive Chairman of the X-Prize Foundation and Singularity University Executive Founder Peter H. Diamandis, years of speculative design of (the long-promised by science-fiction...