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Highlights
🔥 Trump admin pulls back on AI safety.
🚀 'Stargate': $500B AI project!
🤖 OpenAI brings AI to your browser!
🛡️ Cloudflare stops 5.6 Tbps DDoS!
🌍 WEF: AI safety and governance.
Deep Dive
1.Trump Rescinds Executive Order on AI Safety The Verge
Rescinded 78 Biden-era executive actions.
Included Executive Order 14110 on AI.
Trump made AI development a priority.
EU AI Act showdown is now set.
Tech leaders attended inauguration.
Mitigation: Observe EU's AI act for guidance.
2.Introducing Operator research preview OpenAI
Agent uses its own browser for tasks.
Available to Pro users in the U.S.
Powered by "Computer-Using Agent" (CUA).
Mitigations for harmful tasks, model mistakes & prompt injections.
Still in early research preview stage.
Mitigation: Track safety improvements.
3.President Trump highlights 'Stargate' AI project AP News
Stargate is a $500B project to create 100K jobs.
Initial investment at $100 billion.11
20 Data centers being built in Texas.
Includes OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank.
Partners include Microsoft, Arm, Nvidia.
Notice: DeepSeek, an Open Source o1-equivalent AI model, only trained with around $5 Million by a Chinese Hedge Fund.
4.Record-Breaking DDoS Attack 5.6 Tbps Forbes
Record DDoS hit 5.6 Tbps.
Attacked East Asian telecom.
80 second attack utilized Mirai.
Previous high was 3.8 Tbps.
21M DDoS attacks blocked overall in 2024.
Mitigation: Audit and update DDoS protection protocols.
5.The Dawn of Artificial General Intelligence | WEF YouTube
No agreement on definition of AGI.
Focus to shift away from large language models.
AI still not great with real world input.
Ethical use of AI remains key concern.
Open Source AI will become key.
Executive Mitigation/Notice: Adapt business for rapidly changing AI landscape.
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