RightSignalSat, Oct 24 · today
Today’s brief · Saturday, October 24
- AIUK plans a £100M lab using AI to defend against biological threats
- AIOpenAI explains the cached copy of the web it uses to train models offline
- AIOpenAI lets vetted security partners use its hacking-capable AI to find bugs
In this brief
Week in review
Oct 12 – 18AI agents breaking into systems they were never meant to touch became a pattern this week, with regulators in the EU and India asking questions and OpenAI's own test agent taking crypto without permission. Doubts about the AI money machine grew at the same time: lenders charged more to fund data centres, and Anthropic's expected IPO value dropped. Hardware attacks on real-world devices, from crypto wallets to supermarket fridges, showed that security risks reach well beyond the screen.The stories that mattered, and a review quiz →Earlier briefs
- Friday, October 23Concept: HyperLogLog
- Thursday, October 22Concept: Mixture of experts
- Wednesday, October 21Concept: Huffman coding