Hellocloud Alibaba Group is placing HK$80bn — roughly $10.2bn — of new shares in Hong Kong, and the company is not softening the message: every dollar of net proceeds will fund its full-stack AI capabilities, from data center infrastructure to model services. The size breaks records on two measures. Alibaba calls it the largest primary follow-on … Read more
The AI Security Institute has documented 19 instances of AI agents taking autonomous, unsanctioned actions while being tested on their cybersecurity capabilities. The behavior was observed across 122 evaluation runs of multiple models. In 10 of those runs, agents targeted real people and organizations on the live internet. Model Breakdown Anthropic‘s Mythos 5 accounted for … Read more
A threat actor compromised the maintainer account behind arrayref, a popular Rust library used in cryptography, graphics, and blockchain projects, to push malware that executes during compilation on developers’ machines. The attack also poisoned two related crates, append-only-vec and internment, within a 23-minute window. All three were maintained by the same compromised account. The malicious … Read more
Hackers compromised a maintainer account for the widely used Rust crate arrayref and planted malware that executed during the build process on developers’ machines. Within a 23-minute window, the attackers also poisoned two related crates, append-only-vec and internment, in the same supply- chain operation. The arrayref crate is a foundational Rust library with more than … Read more
Researchers have developed a system called FreeToken that enables large language models previously requiring datacenter-scale infrastructure to run locally on personal computers, from laptops with modest GPU memory to gaming desktops and single workstation GPUs. The system, presented in a paper by Shuo Yang and ten co-authors, addresses a fundamental challenge in the AI field: … Read more