An employee at Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI leaked a private key on GitHub that for the past two months could have allowed anyone to query private xAI large language models (LLMs) which appear to have been custom made for working with internal data from Musk’s companies, including SpaceX, Tesla and Twitter/X, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. … Read more
Private military and security companies (PMSCs) are expanding like wildfire across the world, diversifying clients and operations. They offer services ranging from protection and training to direct participation in hostilities, arms dealing, and humanitarian evacuations. Their impact on human rights—particularly on civilians, women, children, and migrants—as well as on the environment, has been widely reported … Read more
Google is planning a major change to the way it develops new versions of the Android operating system. Since the beginning, large swaths of the software have been developed in public-facing channels, but that will no longer be the case. This does not mean Android is shedding its open source roots, but the process won’t … Read more
Posted March 17, 2025 by Ben Carlson Today’s Talk Your Book is brought to you by Calamos Investments: See here for more information on Calamos Private Credit Strategies On today’s show, we discuss: Listen here Charts: Follow us on Instagram, and YouTube. Subscribe here: Nothing in this blog constitutes investment advice, performance data or any recommendation … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. China’s Geely has sold its majority stake in Denmark’s €1.6bn Saxo Bank to Swiss private bank J Safra Sarasin, ending an eight-year joint venture that bet on Chinese capital markets opening up to the west. … Read more