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ArticleTechMeme2m read

Sources and documents: Huawei proposes exporting its high-end Ascend 950-series chips to build Egyptian government AI data centers, testing US tech diplomacy (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: Sources and documents: Huawei proposes exporting its high-end Ascend 950-series chips to build Egyptian government AI data centers, testing US tech diplomacy — Huawei Pitches Egypt With AI Chips, Data Center Buildout — Video Player is loading. — Unmute — Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 100.00% Playback Rate

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A profile of Leopold Aschenbrenner, who worked for SBF and OpenAI before launching Situational Awareness; Aschenbrenner married Dario Amodei's chief of staff (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: A profile of Leopold Aschenbrenner, who worked for SBF and OpenAI before launching Situational Awareness; Aschenbrenner married Dario Amodei's chief of staff — A 24-year-old investor was hailed as a visionary and attracted billions—before turning into Wall Street's latest cautionary tale

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ArticleThe Verge2m read

Ikea’s Xbox collection includes a giant thumbstick stool

Ikea has teamed up with Microsoft to launch a new assortment of gaming-inspired furniture and home accessories, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the first Xbox console. The nine-piece Yxstaby collection (good luck pronouncing that) includes a TV stand, laptop stand, side table, lounge chair, and multi-functional toolbox, with standout products like a stool, cushion, […]

ArticleCIO Online7m read

Before you automate anything, learn to measure it

There is a question that quietly embarrasses more automation projects than any technical failure: How much did it actually save? Ask it a year after launch and watch what happens. The team is confident the new system is better. Everyone remembers how tedious the old way was. And yet nobody can produce a number, because nobody measured the old way before replacing it. The improvement is probably real, but it remains an article of faith rather than a demonstrated result. I’ve spent much of my career automating workflows within large organizations — whether contributing to intelligent assistance features in Microsoft Office, architecting AI expert systems such as the Intelligent Filing Manager (INTELLIFM) across client-server and web platforms, or engineering financial automation such as the Bloomberg Valuation Service (BVAL) for the finance industry. Across every domain, I learned early that the measurement question isn’t a formality that follows the engineering. It comes first. Autom...

ArticleCIO Online7m read

10 steps to implement an effective AI training program

It’s no surprise that reaping the rewards from AI requires careful guidance, especially in helping staff use tools safely and productively. Yet evidence suggests some CIOs and their executive peers aren’t providing the level of guidance employees require. While three-quarters of IT staff have access to AI tools, one in five technologists are expected to self-learn, and 23% are waiting for formal training, according to the recent Harvey Nash Tech Talent Salary Report, which surveyed over 3,600 technology professionals globally. The research suggests AI explorations are commonplace, but tailored learning and development initiatives are not. Digital leaders who want to turn AI into a value-generating opportunity, though, must educate their staff. But what elements should AI training schemes include? Here, industry experts offer 10 steps to implement an effective program. 1. Take a comprehensive approach Michael Cole, chief technology officer at the DP World Tour, the men’s professional...

ArticleTechMeme2m read

Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new iteration of its GLM series and says it will release the weights for it tonight; Ox Alpha topped OpenRouter's leaderboard (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)

Luz Ding / Bloomberg: Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new iteration of its GLM series and says it will release the weights for it tonight; Ox Alpha topped OpenRouter's leaderboard — The new AI model that's swept to the top of online usage charts with high performance at zero cost was created by China's Z.AI Co., also known as Zhipu.

ArticleCIO Online7m read

Why CIOs should look to newsrooms to govern AI

There are few professions where part of the job is literally to read the newspaper, watch television or continuously check what is happening across every channel. In a media organization, that is not confined to journalists. Keeping up with events is, in one way or another, part of the work of much of the organization. A newsroom is also one of the most paradoxical professional environments I know. Before moving into media, I was director of New Technologies at Spain’s leading franchise consultancy, a role that allowed me to work with companies of almost every size and across almost every sector. After years as CIO of Canarias7, I have seen how some of the most senior journalists approach almost anything related to technology with suspicion while looking back fondly on an idealized newsroom of typewriters, cigarettes and whiskey. It may sound like a caricature, but there is truth behind the nostalgia. Few professions have gone through so many technological transformations while cont...

Podcast31m

JADEPUFFER: An End-to-End Agentic-Led Ransomware Attack

In this episode of the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Podcast, we are joined by Sysdig’s Michael Clark and Crystal Morin to discuss JADEPUFFER, one of the first documented cases of an LLM conducting an end-to-end ransomware operation. They break down how the agent, and the direction of a threat actor was identified, how AI is lowering the barrier to entry for ransomware, and why speed and adaptability are changing the threat landscape. Plus, they explore what organizations can do to defend agains

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Risky Business #850 -- Widespread AI-enabled attacks target Siemens PLCs

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by guest co-host Ollie Whitehouse, the CTO of the UK’s NCSC, to talk through the week’s news, including: Iranian hackers take down a small-scale power generator in the UK Siemens PLCs in critical US sectors are also being targeted… We’re stumped on who could be behind that one, too. Microsoft fixed a CVSS 10 deserialisation bug in Entra before someone else found it and owned the planet Prompt injection isn’t going away LLMs are deceivi

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CISA is running on empty.

Lawmakers request an investigation into cuts at CISA. Threat actors actively exploit a Zimbra Collaboration Suite vulnerability. A Chinese AI lab preps release of a powerful open-weight model. A new phishing toolkit deploys attacker-controlled passkeys. Using audio hardware to fingerprint browsers. A DDoS attack knocks Norwegian government services offline. CISA orders patching of a critical Oracle vulnerability. Taiwanese prosecutors charge nine people over the alleged illegal export of high-en

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What the Top AI Users Are Doing Differently

The gap between average AI users and the most advanced has exploded from 2.6x to 8.3x in just months. NLW breaks down new OpenAI data showing how frontier firms are using agents to move beyond writing and research into execution, workflow automation, and systems-level work. In the headlines: Meta’s new agent, major AI price cuts, and Nvidia’s investment spree.Executive Agent Leadership - Returns in September -- Learn how to use agents - ⁠⁠⁠https://training.besuper.ai/⁠⁠⁠Free Webinar - Agentic Lo

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Postgres at PlanetScale (Interview)

Sam Lambert is back after 4 years and he does not hold back! We cover $5 PlanetScale Postgres, the Neki "do-over" of Vitess, agents shipping schema changes through deploy requests, rolling back a 500TB table in seconds, and the very real question of whether to open source any of it. Plus: why he thinks the sleeping, lazy giants should be broken up.

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Podcast63m

The New Economics of AI | Martin Casado & Steven Sinofsky

a16z General Partners Martin Casado and Erik Torenberg are joined by Board Partner Steven Sinofsky to explore what recent breakthroughs in AI and mathematics tell us about where the technology is headed, and whether some of the basic assumptions that have governed computing for decades are starting to break. Martin and Steven debate whether AI's progress in mathematics represents a genuine leap in reasoning or simply a new tool for solving problems at a higher level of abstraction. From the four

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AI Proficiency: From Users to Builders

As AI continues to reshape how organizations work, companies are increasingly asking what AI proficiency should look like across their workforce, and how they can help employees adapt without simply mandating AI adoption. Our returning guest Mike Lewis, Chief AI Architect at TiER1 Performance, joins Dan and Chris to explore AI proficiency through the L0–L3 framework, with a particular focus on the role of non-technical builders. They discuss AI resistance, identifying the right people to build A

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The Gap Between AI Spending and AI Value

It is widely reported that a gap has emerged between enterprise spending on AI and the durable value captured from that spend. Individual employees have enthusiastically adopted coding assistants and chatbots, yet those gains do not seem to be transforming businesses at an organizational level. One of the most important questions in the tech industry today is understanding why AI is not yet delivering returns that match the investment, and what separates the small number of enterprises succeedin

Podcast30m

The odds were classified.

Polymarket traders win big on U.S. military insider information. Slovakia deactivates speed cameras with Russian backdoors. TikTok pays $400 million to settle kids' privacy allegations. Hackers infect Android-based car systems with botnet malware. CISA orders quick patching of an actively exploited Zimbra Collaboration Suite vulnerability. SynkLoader malware is built for stealthy access to corporate networks. Dutch authorities fine Uber over $900 million over automated hiring practices. An ATM j

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The AI Model Tier List

A viral AI model tier list reveals how much harder it has become to name the “best” model. This episode breaks down where today’s leading models belong, why cost and speed increasingly matter alongside intelligence, and how businesses are assembling model stacks that combine premium and open models. In the headlines: Hugging Face explores a sale, NVIDIA expands its open-model ambitions, and Dr. Dre embraces AI music.Executive Agent Leadership - Returns in September -- Learn how to use agents - ⁠

8/24/2026

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Why Medical AI Needs a Referee | Protege's Engy Ziedan

Daisy Wolf and Eva Steinman are joined by Engy Ziedan, co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Protege, to discuss why medical AI has a measurement problem, and why scoring well on a benchmark doesn't necessarily mean a model is ready for the hospital. Engy explains why healthcare AI needs independent evaluations that go beyond static exams and measure how models actually perform in real-world clinical workflows. They explore the risks of subtle bias and misalignment, why the same model can r

Podcast35m

Simplify First, Scale AI Next with Vulcan Materials CIO Krzysztof Soltan

Better AI starts with better data, and for Vulcan Materials CIO Krzysztof Soltan that means simplifying first. In this episode of Technovation, Krzysztof Soltan joins Peter High to discuss how Vulcan Materials is modernizing its technology foundation across more than 400 aggregate operations. He explains why reducing system complexity, strengthening master data governance, and investing in talent are foundational to the company’s AI ambitions. The conversation also explores Vulcan’s multi-year d

8/23/2026

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The Real Future of AI and Work

AI’s impact on work goes far beyond job losses. Drawing on Every’s new Thesis Statements project, NLW explores how AI could transform what individuals do, how companies operate, which skills become valuable and what becomes possible when intelligence is abundant.Thesis Statements: https://every.to/thesis-statementsExecutive Agent Leadership - Returns in September -- Learn how to use agents - ⁠https://training.besuper.ai/⁠Free Webinar - Agentic Loops for Knowledge Workers - 8/26/26 26pm ⁠https://

Podcast24m

Building a secure space internet. [T-Minus: Space-Cyber Briefing]

As space infrastructure has continued to expand, developing secure space systems has become just as important as launching the spacecraft themselves. In this week's episode, host Maria Varmazis sits down with Filip Rezabek, co-founder and CTO of Space Computer, to talk about some of the technologies being created to secure space infrastructure in orbit. The two discuss the importance of establishing a chain of trust in space and the challenges of securing hardware against supply chain attacks. L

8/22/2026

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Martin Casado on Where the Value Is Going in AI

Martin Casado joins MTS hosts Theo Jaffee and Sophia Dew to unpack where value is actually accruing in AI, why this technology cycle looks fundamentally different from previous waves, and whether the frontier labs will ultimately capture most of the market. Martin explains why AI has turned venture into a scale-up capital game, where small teams can productively deploy extraordinary amounts of money, and why the relationship between capital, innovation, and growth has never been tighter. He lays

Podcast29m

A RAT in the spreadsheet. [Research Saturday]

Today we are joined by Aaron Beardslee, Manager of Threat Research at Securonix, discussing "Analyzing SHEET#CREEP: SHEETCREEP is up again with different config obfuscation." Securonix researchers have identified an evolved version of the SHEETCREEP espionage campaign, using a diplomatic-themed ISO phishing lure to deliver a C# remote access trojan targeting Indian diplomatic interests. The malware abuses the Google Sheets API as a stealthy command-and-control channel, with researchers identifyi

8/21/2026

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The guest nobody invited.

CISA orders patching of TrueConf Server vulnerabilities. LockBit threatens release of stolen banking data. Researchers disclose a critical type confusion vulnerability in a Node.js library. A new Agent Tesla v4 campaign introduces enhanced evasion techniques. A novel malware delivery technique abuses FTP server banners to hide commands. Apple patches a critical image-processing flaw. A North Korean software supply chain attack targets the Rust ecosystem. Latvian officials resign following a majo

Podcast36m

Why Everyone Suddenly Hates AI Data Centers

Opposition to AI data centers has become one of America’s fastest-moving bipartisan political issues, driven by concerns about electricity, water, noise, property values, jobs, and a deeper mistrust of Big Tech. NLW provides an end-to-end primer on what data centers actually do, why public sentiment has turned so sharply, where the loudest claims fall apart, and how transparency, community control, and direct local benefits could offer a path forward.Executive Agent Leadership - Returns in Septe