Microsoft, tech companies throw weight behind spread of open-source AI

Other signatories of the letter include Meta, Palantir, Perplexity, Mistral, NVIDIA, Mozilla, The Linux Foundation, Hugging Face, Dell Technologies and IBM.

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White House accuses Chinese company of distilling Anthropic’s Fable

While distillation attacks by foreign governments and companies have real national security implications, questions around who ultimately owns the data in AI systems are fraught.

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OpenAI says model test was behind Hugging Face hack

At the time, Hugging Face said it wasn’t clear which LLM was used in the attack. OpenAI confirmed it was one of their models being tested for “maximal” cyber capabilities. 

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Where’s the Trump administration line on AI regulation?

The messy approach to U.S. AI regulation reflects both the rapid speed of model cyber capabilities and the White House’s “education” over the past two years, experts said.

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Director of Commerce AI standards office out after three months

The Center for AI Standards and Innovation has quietly become a key hub for the federal government to assess potential threats and harms that AI systems pose.

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State officials, election experts pan Trump speech: ‘This is what desperation looks like’

The president’s speech re-hashed debunked conspiracies around U.S. elections. Critics say the administration’s 18-month investigation into voter fraud has been a total failure. 

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Forget the model. When it comes to cybersecurity, it’s all about the harness

Industry has quickly developed tools meant to guide and direct frontier LLMs in cybersecurity. Attackers aren’t far behind.

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White House details ‘Gold Eagle’ clearinghouse for AI cyber threats

The White House said the clearinghouse has already started to receive intelligence on vulnerabilities and prioritize patches.

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States are building their own election defense networks as federal support evaporates 

Election officials are facing an impossible choice: follow federal directives they don’t trust, or risk becoming targets of a criminal investigation.

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