Julie Bort
Venture Editor, TechCrunch
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US investigated Chinese spy plot aimed at Nvidia CEO
TechCrunch's Julie Bort reports, citing sources who spoke to the New York Times, that a top executive of a Singapore AI cloud company accused of illegally selling Nvidia chips to China could also have been a Chinese spy. The claim is unproven.
PHP Armageddon: OpenAI, Google’s Wiz find ancient holes, panicking the internet
TechCrunch reports that two critical flaws, present in PHP since 2004, were found with AI by a firm working in OpenAI's Patch the Planet effort and separately by Wiz. The NSA advises patching at once or taking sites offline.
Hugging Face CEO warns that Netflix’s OpenAI hack documentary isn’t accurate
According to the excerpt, TechCrunch reports that Clem Delangue, a Hugging Face co-founder featured in the Netflix documentary "AI Gone Rogue", says the film went full doomer mode and is not accurate.
Microsoft says AI agents are like insider threats as ‘frontier models can’t be trusted’
TechCrunch reports that Microsoft launched Guardian Agents and other tools to monitor and limit the AI agents companies use, citing Satya Nadella and security chief Hayete Gallot saying frontier models cannot be trusted. TechCrunch notes the plan also benefits Microsoft's own sales.