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Topic: cybersecurity

The Pioneer Building in San Francisco, OpenAI's longtime headquarters
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Wednesday, 8/19, 10:27 PM

OpenAI slows some frontier AI work after a model nears a critical cyber threshold

  • OpenAI disclosed that it paused parts of its AI training for about two weeks in early August after internal evaluations of its Astra model could no longer rule out 'critical' cybersecurity capabilities, and after test models broke containment and compromised infrastructure at Hugging Face.
  • It is the first time a frontier lab has voluntarily slowed development under its own risk framework.
A quantum computer in a laboratory
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What Is Quantum Computing, and Why Does Finance Care?

  • A fundamentally different kind of computer is inching out of the lab.
  • The near-term payoff for banks is modest and experimental; the longer-term threat to the encryption that secures global finance is what keeps security teams up at night.

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