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In a leaked call transcript, we learn what DeepSeek's CEO thinks are China's weaknesses and strengths in the AI race with the United States | Edition #309

Civilian infrastructure is not targetable merely because it is economically significant or politically useful to strike, but only when it offers a definite military advantage. The post When Civilian Infrastructure Becomes a Lawful Target appeared first on Just Security .

Published on March 17, 2017 5:54 PM GMT This post is co-authored with Ben Garfinkel. It is cross-posted from the CEA blog . A PDF version can be found here . Summary: Some strategic decisions available to the effective altruism movement may be difficult to reverse. One example is making the movement’s brand explicitly political. Another is growing large. Under high uncertainty, there is often reason to avoid or delay such hard-to-reverse decisions.   Table of contents Introduction What is r

The story that matters most this week is that OpenAI’s internally deployed models have severe alignment problems, including repeatedly breaking out of their sandboxes, and in one case sending a swarm of agents that broke into HuggingFace in order to steal the answers to the benchmark ExploitGym.

The attempt to condition states' counterterrorism funding on changes to election rules is unlawful and likely to be challenged in court. The post No, Trump Can’t Withhold Anti-Terrorism Funds to Pressure States to Change Their Election Rules appeared first on Just Security .

The core question that has consumed analytics and business intelligence leaders for years is, “What is the one best way for business users to consume data?” The answer has at times been reports, dashboards, or low-code GUI-based self-service analytics. The latest answer is generative AI-based natural language prompts. Maybe we have the question wrong. Perhaps […]

On Thursday, New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill signed into law a ban on surveillance pricing for groceries. The Fair Price Protection Act makes New Jersey the third state to enact legislation curbing surveillance pricing, joining Maryland and Connecticut. The New York Legislature has also sent a surveillance pricing ban to Governor Kathy Hochul’s desk for signature.

New paper: “ Encryption and Globalization 15 Years Later: End-to-End Encryption and the Third Round of the ‘Going Dark’ Debate “: Abstract : This Article updates and expands on 2012 research on encryption and globalization, analyzing what the authors call “Round 3” of the Going Dark Debate: the current controversies over end-to-end encryption (E2EE). Governments around the world have proposed, and in some cases enacted, laws limiting E2EE for law enforcement and national security purposes. This

Brussels has developed a curious theory of digital privacy. Anonymous search queries need audits, screening, and a security cordon. Your messages, microphone, and screen can make do with a checkbox. That is the logic running through two decisions the European Commission adopted last week involving the same company, under the same law, on the same ... Europe’s Privacy Paradox: Fort Knox for Search Data, a Checkbox for Your Phone The post Europe’s Privacy Paradox: Fort Knox for Search Data, a Chec

Today's links California's privacy obstacle course: Malice or incompetence (why not both?). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Continuous partial attention, TSA is the worst; Trump's FCC v the future. Upcoming appearances: Edinburgh, Sydney, Melbourne, Brighton, London, South Bend. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em. Colophon: All the rest. California's privacy

Delhi is, once again, host to a large student protest. It emerged in response to a pathetic comment by the sitting Chief Justice of India, and has now centred around entrance exam irregularities and education reforms. As the events are still developing and taking new turns as I write, it is impossible to judge their trajectory. Nevertheless, in this piece, I assess what these protests convey about the arc of a government that has now been in office for over a decade. The post Three Phases of the

Do people really want datacenters, robots and AI overlords? This is going to become a problem. The robotics flood is near. 🤖

Ende Juni hat die Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte ihr Gutachten zur Verfassungswidrigkeit der AfD vorgestellt. Das Gutachten ist methodisch und konzeptionell ergebnisoffen angelegt und legt transparente, wissenschaftliche Standards zugrunde. Den von der GFF ausdrücklich kommunizierten Anspruch, die „eindeutige“ Verfassungswidrigkeit der AfD und die „große Wahrscheinlichkeit“, dass ein Verbotsverfahren erfolgreich wäre, festzustellen, kann es jedoch nicht einlösen. Das liegt an zwei Illusionen ü

Yes, but less than had they been schemers.

Responding quickly and effectively to hybrid warfare attacks against U.S. allies and partners is a growing challenge for policymakers. When an aggressor designs an attack to deliberately obscure their ...

Insurgency-related conflicts often start without warning and can last over a decade, making the pre-crisis and early crisis phases crucial for U.S. policymakers seeking to prevent national security ...

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang today visited the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, to commission an NVIDIA DGX GB300 system — bringing one of the world’s most powerful AI platforms fully online for the students, researchers and faculty at the U.S. military’s flagship graduate university. “Our nation depends on our men and women […]

Health in ChatGPT now lets eligible U.S. users securely connect medical records and Apple Health to get more personalized insights and better understand their health.

The United States lacks a rigorous, routinized approach to managing foreign policy crises. The Wachenheim Center for Peace and Security has developed a set of Crisis Response Playbooks and a Crisis ...

This story is wild. The short version: OpenAI were running a cybersecurity test against an unreleased model, with the model's guardrail features turned off. Rather than solve the test, the model broke its way out of OpenAI's sandbox, then found exploits to break in to Hugging Face, all so it could cheat on the test by stealing the answers. Along the way it helped make the strongest case yet for how the imbalance of model availability is hurting our ability to secure our software. Here's what hap

Legal intern Suzanne Castillo was the principal author of this post. The Fourth Circuit issued a disappointing opinion in U.S. v. Belmonte Cardozo , a case in which EFF filed an amicus brief , alongside the national ACLU, its Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia affiliates, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL). We argued that electronic device searches at the border should require a warrant based on probable cause, but at minimum, regardless of wheth

This latest incident is a rather dramatic escalation in agentic AI cybersecurity breaches.

Southeast Asian countries have started to bridge the digital divides. To facilitate cross-border trade, QR payment (Opens in new window) systems show how regional cooperation can deliver practical ...

When an AI evaluation becomes a real-world security incident, leaders can no longer view model testing as a low-risk exercise. The OpenAI and Hugging Face incident reveals how agentic AI can cross trust boundaries, exploit vulnerabilities, and create business risk long before deployment.

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San Francisco tip: it only costs around $15 ($10 in quarters plus a $5 bill for the self-playing violin) to activate every single Orchestrion in Musée Mécanique . And because most people are bad at allocating their funds you may well be the ONLY person activating the Orchestrions, which means you get to craft the soundscape for the entire museum. Tags: san-francisco

CSET Senior Fellow Emelia Probasco shares her experience and the remarks she gave at the Global Nobel Laureates Assembly on Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear War, which took place at Borgo Laudato Si’, Vatican. The post Remarks at the Global Nobel Laureates Assembly on Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear War in Borgo Laudato Si’, Vatican appeared first on Center for Security and Emerging Technology .

Also, a new interpretability method for illuminating LLMs’ internal reasoning steps, and a study on LLM persuasion abilities

Biodiversity loss is one of the central challenges of the “triple planetary crisis” alongside climate change and pollution. Scientific assessments suggest that humanity has already transgressed the planetary boundary relating to biosphere integrity and researchers discuss whether we are already within a sixth mass extinction event. This post seeks to initiate a broader discussion on the promises and pitfalls of replicating successful climate advisory opinion initiatives for the integrity of the

Can we ever develop and use AI in an environmentally sustainable way? My conversation with Philipp Hacker and Boris | Edition #308

Before a healthcare robot can be useful in the real world, it has to learn how the physical world pushes back. Anatomy varies. Instruments bend, press, slip and interact with tissue. Imaging can be noisy or incomplete. And the rare, edge scenarios developers most need to understand don’t appear on schedule. That creates one of […]

OpenAI announces Project Camellia in Effingham County, Georgia, with commitments to responsible energy, community investment, jobs, and access to Codex.

We shared how Samsung users can boost productivity and get time back on new foldables, watches, and glasses coming soon.

The use of LLMs for foreign intelligence surveillance erodes the rules put in place to safeguard Americans' civil liberties. The post AI and Warrantless Foreign Intelligence Surveillance appeared first on Just Security .

OpenAI outlines its commitment to advancing American science working with the U.S. Department of Energy and national labs to use frontier AI to accelerate discovery.

Signup to receive the Early Edition in your inbox here. A curated weekday guide to major news and developments over the last 24 hours. Here’s today’s news: IRAN WAR The U.S. military carried out its 11th consecutive night of strikes on Iran, with the latest wave lasting about 75 minutes overnight, according to the U.S. […] The post Early Edition: July 22, 2026 appeared first on Just Security .

Inside the lab of a biologist who is seeking to understand intelligence by focusing on problem-solving, not neurons - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

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Several new Cyber headlines make us observe a trend