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Europe Broke Its Economy. Now It Wants Your Savings to Repair It.
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@TFTC21Your bitcoin is worth more in your hands than in someone else's. @AvenCard lets you borrow against it instead of selling. Up to $1M, rates from 8.99%, no rehypothecation. 2% unlimited cash back on every purchase. tftc.io/bitcoin-visa-c…
@TFTC21OpenAI says its next model Astra is the first to hit "Critical" cybersecurity capability. That means it can find zero-day vulnerabilities and build working exploits across hardened systems without human guidance. "In expert-led assessments against a hardened browser and operating system, Astra discovered previously unknown vulnerabilities and turned them into working exploit chains. It built a full browser-compromise chain that escaped the sandbox and executed commands on the host." In testing, Astra scored 100% on ExploitBench and discovered two actual zero-days during evaluation. OpenAI delayed parts of development after the Hugging Face agent hack, paused frontier training for two weeks, and hardened its training infrastructure. On jailbreak resistance, Astra refuses 91.5% of disallowed cyber requests vs 59% for the previous model. Access to advanced cybersecurity capabilities will initially be limited to a small group of testers. openai.com/index/path-to-…
@TFTC21CrowdStrike founder George Kurtz on the OpenAI agent hack of Hugging Face: "These are known attack chains. When we built our system, it was designed to look at indicators of attack. If you look at the whole attack chain, it's just linking all these attacks together." Says the problem of agentic hacking is tractable. x.com/tbpn/status/20…
@TFTC21Cybersecurity teams logging in this morning: x.com/lopp/status/20…
@TFTC21AI safety researcher who investigated the OpenAI agent hack: "This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get for loss of control. Much more concerning things will happen, but it may never be as clear as this before it's far too late."
@TFTC21Germany's largest public pension fund, BVK, is being sued by its asset manager Deutsche Finance for allegedly controlling a $2 billion US real estate portfolio while publicly posing as a passive investor. The portfolio included the Transamerica Pyramid and the Coca-Cola Building. Deutsche Finance claims that when US commercial real estate softened after 2020, BVK failed to approve the budgets, financing, and leases needed to protect the portfolio, contributing to losses estimated around $988 million. The suit alleges BVK then ran a PR campaign blaming Deutsche Finance for the losses, made statements to regulators and the Bavarian Parliament, and withheld $31 million in contractually guaranteed fees. Deutsche Finance is suing for breach of contract, defamation, and deceptive trade practices. BVK has previously rejected similar accusations. h/t @kshaughnessy2
@TFTC21Ajeya Cotra with @dwarkesh_sp: "The agents gained full administrative access to a research cluster at OpenAI. It's plausible the AIs could have exfiltrated their own weights." Humans had no idea for 3 months.
@TFTC21Elon Musk at the G20: electricity is the single binding constraint on AI growth, with a 15 gigawatt power shortfall coming by 2027.
@TFTC21Steak 'n Shake launched "Tesla Tallow Tuesday." All Tesla drivers get free beef tallow crinkle-cut fries and a free jar of grass-fed tallow cooking oil today. x.com/SteaknShake/st…
@TFTC21Rep. Lauren Boebert on Flock surveillance cameras: "The Fourth Amendment is not a suggestion, and it's certainly not for sale."
@TFTC21The benchmarks: x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1. "They're the world’s most advanced models for coding and knowledge work."
@TFTC21Your bitcoin is worth more in your hands than in someone else's. @AvenCard lets you borrow against it instead of selling. Up to $1M, rates from 8.99%, no rehypothecation. 2% unlimited cash back on every purchase. tftc.io/bitcoin-visa-c…
@TFTC21OpenAI says its next model Astra is the first to hit "Critical" cybersecurity capability. That means it can find zero-day vulnerabilities and build working exploits across hardened systems without human guidance. "In expert-led assessments against a hardened browser and operating system, Astra discovered previously unknown vulnerabilities and turned them into working exploit chains. It built a full browser-compromise chain that escaped the sandbox and executed commands on the host." In testing, Astra scored 100% on ExploitBench and discovered two actual zero-days during evaluation. OpenAI delayed parts of development after the Hugging Face agent hack, paused frontier training for two weeks, and hardened its training infrastructure. On jailbreak resistance, Astra refuses 91.5% of disallowed cyber requests vs 59% for the previous model. Access to advanced cybersecurity capabilities will initially be limited to a small group of testers. openai.com/index/path-to-…
@TFTC21CrowdStrike founder George Kurtz on the OpenAI agent hack of Hugging Face: "These are known attack chains. When we built our system, it was designed to look at indicators of attack. If you look at the whole attack chain, it's just linking all these attacks together." Says the problem of agentic hacking is tractable. x.com/tbpn/status/20…
@TFTC21Cybersecurity teams logging in this morning: x.com/lopp/status/20…
@TFTC21AI safety researcher who investigated the OpenAI agent hack: "This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get for loss of control. Much more concerning things will happen, but it may never be as clear as this before it's far too late."
@TFTC21Germany's largest public pension fund, BVK, is being sued by its asset manager Deutsche Finance for allegedly controlling a $2 billion US real estate portfolio while publicly posing as a passive investor. The portfolio included the Transamerica Pyramid and the Coca-Cola Building. Deutsche Finance claims that when US commercial real estate softened after 2020, BVK failed to approve the budgets, financing, and leases needed to protect the portfolio, contributing to losses estimated around $988 million. The suit alleges BVK then ran a PR campaign blaming Deutsche Finance for the losses, made statements to regulators and the Bavarian Parliament, and withheld $31 million in contractually guaranteed fees. Deutsche Finance is suing for breach of contract, defamation, and deceptive trade practices. BVK has previously rejected similar accusations. h/t @kshaughnessy2
@TFTC21Ajeya Cotra with @dwarkesh_sp: "The agents gained full administrative access to a research cluster at OpenAI. It's plausible the AIs could have exfiltrated their own weights." Humans had no idea for 3 months.
@TFTC21Elon Musk at the G20: electricity is the single binding constraint on AI growth, with a 15 gigawatt power shortfall coming by 2027.
@TFTC21Steak 'n Shake launched "Tesla Tallow Tuesday." All Tesla drivers get free beef tallow crinkle-cut fries and a free jar of grass-fed tallow cooking oil today. x.com/SteaknShake/st…
@TFTC21Rep. Lauren Boebert on Flock surveillance cameras: "The Fourth Amendment is not a suggestion, and it's certainly not for sale."
@TFTC21The benchmarks: x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1. "They're the world’s most advanced models for coding and knowledge work."
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