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⚠️ Microsoft failed to disclose Chinese engineers on Pentagon work
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- Microsoft submitted a "System Security Plan" to the Pentagon describing a vague "Escorted Access" policy, which concealed that the "non-screened personnel" were actually engineers working from inside China.
- The practice also extended to a China-based team maintaining the on-premise SharePoint software that was later targeted in the "ToolShell" hacking campaign which compromised over 400 different organizations.
- This lack of transparency was enabled by a system where Microsoft hired and paid its own third-party assessment organizations to vet the security plans it submitted to the U.S. government.
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💰 White House confirms talks for 10% Intel stake
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- U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick confirmed the White House is talking with Intel about acquiring a 10% stake by converting grants from the CHIPS Act into company equity.
- The administration's reasoning is that American taxpayers should get a financial return on the investment instead of just giving grants to a company worth more than $100 billion.
- This proposed equity stake would not come with any governance provisions, so Intel’s board of directors would still be in charge of the direction the company is taking.
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📱 The White House now has a TikTok account
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- The White House under President Donald Trump has launched the official @whitehouse TikTok account to reach 170 million U.S. users with short videos about policies, events, and direct messages.
- This government presence builds on the campaign's success, aiming to communicate administration policies to younger, TV-averse voters who are less likely to engage with traditional media outlets like television.
- The administration's move is paradoxical as it embraces the app for outreach while Trump postpones a law that could ban TikTok due to national security risks from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance.
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🔍 Thousands of Grok chats are now searchable on Google
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- When users click the “share” button on a conversation, xAI’s chatbot Grok creates a unique URL that search engines are indexing, making thousands of chats publicly accessible on Google.
- These searchable conversations show users asking for instructions on making fentanyl, bomb construction tips, and even a detailed plan for the assassination of Elon Musk which the chatbot provided.
- This leak follows a recent post, quote-tweeted by Musk, where Grok explained it had “no such sharing feature” and was instead designed by xAI to “prioritize privacy.”
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🗣️ Meta adds AI voice dubbing to Facebook and Instagram
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- Meta is adding an AI translation tool to Facebook and Instagram reels that dubs a creator's voice into new languages while keeping their original sound and tone for authenticity.
- The system initially works from English to Spanish and has an optional lip sync feature which aligns the translated audio with the speaker’s mouth movements for a more natural look.
- Viewers see a notice that content was dubbed using Meta AI, and Facebook creators can also manually upload up to 20 of their own audio tracks through the Business Suite.
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📉 95% of corporate AI projects show no impact
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- An MIT study found 95 percent of AI pilot programs stall because generic tools do not adapt well to established corporate workflows, delivering little to no measurable impact on profit.
- Companies often misdirect spending by focusing on sales and marketing, whereas the research reveals AI works best in back-office automation for repetitive administrative tasks that are typically outsourced.
- Projects that partner with specialized AI providers are twice as successful as in-house tools, yet many firms build their own programs to reduce regulatory risk in sensitive fields.
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☀️ NASA and IBM built an AI to predict solar storms
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- NASA and IBM released Surya, an open-source AI on Hugging Face, to forecast solar flares and protect Earth's critical infrastructure like satellites and electrical power grids from space weather.
- The model was trained on nine years of high-resolution images from the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory, which are about 10 times larger than typical data used for this purpose.
- Early tests show a 16% improvement in the accuracy of solar flare classifications, with the goal of providing a two-hour warning before a disruptive event actually takes place.
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