UL NO. 440: RAID (Real World AI Definitions)

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TOC

• NOTES

• MY WORK

• STORIES

• IDEAS

• DISCOVERY

• RECOMMENDATION OF THE WEEK

• APHORISM OF THE WEEK

NOTES

Hey there!

First, some terrorist funding news…

lol – The Internet

• I’m re-reading Alex Hormozi’s two business books. He has my absolutely
  favorite business content right now, by far.
  THE FIRST ONE

• My buddy Jakoby is an Army Veteran and brilliant security guy, and he’s
  struggling pretty hard right now. He’s actively trying to avoid eviction
  and any help would be appreciated.
  GIVE WHAT YOU CAN

• Fabric made it to the front page of Hacker News!
  HACKER NEWS

• Don’t forget to sign up for the next run of AUGMENTED which runs on July
  26th.
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• Got to spend some in-person time with a couple fellow
  entrepreneurs/creators over the weekend. Invaluable time, these physical
  meetups. Nothing is more useful than having peers red-team your
  thinking, and I highly recommend setting up similar sessions with your
  peeps.

• My friend Monica Verma is running her
  CISO Masterclass
  soon, and she also has a
  newsletter!

Ok, let’s get to it…

MY WORK

I just finished a resource I’ve been working on for over a week called
RAID, for Real-world AI Definitions. It was going to be like 3
paragraphs but I just kept adding more definitions and more detail.
READ IT

RAID (Real World AI Definitions)

An evolving set of real-world AI definitions designed to be usable in
discussion

danielmiessler.com/p/raid-ai-definitions

STORIES

Cloudflare has a new, free tool to stop bots from scraping websites for AI
training data. | by
Kyle Wiggers |
TECHCRUNCH

Twilio says someone got phone numbers because of an unsecured Authy API
endpoint, and 33 million numbers are now on the dark web. |
THE VERGE

Russian experts say they’ve fully analyzed the structure of the American
ATACMS missile, and they believe this knowledge will help them counter one
of Ukraine’s most effective long-range weapons. |
EURASIANTIMES

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North Korea has switched its state TV broadcasts from a Chinese satellite to
a Russian one, reducing the number of people who can watch. This change was
discovered by South Korea’s KBS, which relies on North Korea’s KCTV for
insights into the country.
THERECORD

Hezbollah launched over 200 rockets and drones at Israel after Israel killed
a senior Hezbollah official, Muhammad Nimah Nasser. This is the largest
attack along the Lebanon-Israel border so far.
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The U.S. intelligence community is diving into generative AI to enhance
intelligence operations, using it for tasks like search, discovery, and
counter-argument generation. | by
Frank Konkel |
NEXTGOV

Here’s some analysis saying AI can’t be funny, but I think I disagree. | by
Anya Jaremko-Greenwold |
THEWEEK 

💡I’m starting to see lots of AI-generated memes that are pretty damn good.
This is one Joseph Thacker shared on X:

I mean, it’s not a Chapelle standup, but it’s decent. And most
importantly I’ve not seen a single explanation for why AI will continue
improving in other areas but not in humor.

There’s was a breach at OpenAI, but it looks like the hacker only accessed
an employee discussion forum. | by
Devin Coldewey |
TECHCRUNCH

Nvidia is set to make $12 billion by selling over a million HGX H20 GPUs to
China in 2024. These GPUs are designed to comply with U.S. export
restrictions while still offering strong performance. |
TOMSHARDWARE

Apple might soon announce a deal to bring Google’s Gemini chatbot to iOS 18
and macOS Sequoia. | by
Filipe Espósito |
9TO5MAC

💡So that means Apple will potentially be working with all three main AI
players now, which is precisely what we would expect to see.

They announced OpenAI, mentioned Meta a while back, and now Google.

Greece is moving to a six-day working week to boost productivity, despite
global trends towards shorter weeks. |
THE GUARDIAN

💡I don’t want gesture control; I want actual cameras. 🙂

David Brooks sat down with Steve Bannon to understand his vision for the
global populist movement. Bannon believes the ruling elites of the West have
lost confidence in themselves and are detached from their people’s lived
experiences. | by
David Brooks |
NYT

The number of U.S. high school graduates is expected to peak in 2025 or 2026
and then decline for years, posing severe challenges to schools at all
levels. Schools and colleges are closing, faculty members are being laid
off, and districts are facing financial dilemmas. | by
Jennifer A. Kingson |
AXIOS

The U.S. dollar just hit a 38-year peak against the yen, driven by rising
Treasury yields and Japan’s sluggish economic growth. |
ASAHI 

People whose eyes dilated more performed better on tests of working memory,
suggesting that pupil size is linked to how well we can process and remember
information. | by
Kate Graham-Shaw |
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

The FDA approved Eli Lilly’s Alzheimer’s drug, donanemab (Kisunla), which
slows disease progression by about a third. | by
Tina Reed |
AXIOS

High Work-In-Progress (WIP) is killing your business, innovation, and
morale. The more tasks you juggle, the slower everything moves. High WIP
means everyone is stressed and busy without significant results. | by
Maarten Dalmijn |
HACKER NEWS

IDEAS

The AI Class Gap
Here’s the separation that most concerns me
with AI: We’re going to see even more separation between haves and have-nots
because:

1. One small group will use AI to have a staff of 10,000 executive
   assistants, tutors, and analysts working 24/7 to run their businesses
   and optimize their entire lives.

2. Most people will either not use AI at all, or will only use it for
   gaming, watching media, porn, and doing random tasks.

It’ll largely be the same split as between voracious readers and everyone
else today. The tools are available, but only a tiny percentage will use
them.

The result will be a even more distance between the thriving and the
surviving.

DISCOVERY

Self-Publishing a Tech Book — Andrew Wheeler shares his journey of
self-publishing “Data Science for Crime Analysis with Python,” offering
insights on the process and tools he used. | by
Andrew Wheeler |
HACKER NEWS

MMA-AI — This guy is predicting MMA fight outcomes with AI and doing really
well! |
MMA-AI

Sam Parr launched SamsList, a database of CPAs, accountants, tax
strategists, and bookkeeping firms. He’s already made over $32,000 in
revenue in just two months. | by
Sam Parr |
SAMSLIST

The Illustrated Transformer — A visual and intuitive guide to understanding
how transformers work in machine learning. | by
Jay Alammar |
JALAMMAR

ElevenLabs has a new AI Voice Isolator that removes unwanted ambient noise
from content like podcasts and videos. | by
ElevenLabs |
VENTUREBEAT

Tao Te Ching by Ursula K. Le Guin — Ursula K. Le Guin’s translation of the
Tao Te Ching emphasizes the paradoxes and mysteries of the text, making it
both profound and approachable. | by
Nicholas Bennett |
GITHUB

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APHORISM OF THE WEEK

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