4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (208+ words) A Chinese company doesn’t need to hack Silicon Valley; it can simply rent the server next door. Colocation also carries digital risks. Flaws in virtualization software, GPUs, and even management and cooling systems routinely surface, sometimes letting one tenant peer…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (736+ words) Washington has spent the summer alarmed by Chinese artificial intelligence (AI). After the release of Kimi K3—a Chinese model that pulled within reach of the U.S. frontier models—the White House began weighing plans to ban enterprise use of Chinese…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (548+ words) Lawfare This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Senior Editors Molly Roberts and Eric Columbus, and Contributing Editor Renée DiResta, to talk through the week’s big domestic news stories, including: - “Signed, Sealed, Undelivered.” As the first mail ballots…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (208+ words) With AI we have built genies. Old stories told us how this goes. Whenever something powerful appears in the world, we tell stories about it. That’s what the stories are for. We have thousands of years of stories about this…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (816+ words) Strategies built to disrupt cyber adversaries may impose costs but are unlikely to lead to long-term stability. The United States is now eight years into a military strategy and academic theory built, in part, on a daring view of how…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (799+ words) Certain species of wasps reproduce by laying eggs inside the bodies of caterpillars; when the eggs hatch, the larvae consume the caterpillars whole. In much the same way, frontier artificial intelligence (AI) labs are embedding their AI products deep within…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1324+ words) The U.S. government’s plan to enlist private-sector hackers to target cybercriminals is controversial, but it addresses a real problem and is surprisingly measured. Last week, a presidential memo directed the Department of Homeland Security to establish a program authorizing private companies…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (267+ words) Judges face an unsatisfactory menu of AI options. A secure, judiciary-controlled sandbox for testing frontier models is the better path. The New Legal-AI Landscape Exhibits From the Frontier of AI Lawyering Conversations about law and AI can drift quickly into…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (100+ words) Lawfare Matt Abrams, technologist, investor, and co-founder of $1 Billion for Trust, joins Kevin Frazier, AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas School of Law and a Senior Editor at Lawfare, to discuss the collapse of institutional trust…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (325+ words) From targetability to liability, tech companies face expanding risks in conflict zones. Risks to Personnel: Direct Participation in Hostilities In addition to infrastructure considerations, companies should ensure that protections are in place to limit the risk that employees may be…...