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An AI cracked Apple's newest Mac security in five days. Apple spent five years building that lock.
Anthropic's Mythos AI bypassed Apple's five-year Memory Integrity Enforcement in five days. Gallup says 70 percent oppose data centers nearby. OpenAI just endorsed mandatory third-party AI audits. Meta cuts 8,000 Tuesday. ChatGPT got sued for routing your chats to Facebook and Google.
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Subscribe on Substack ›1. An AI cracked Apple's newest Mac security in five days. Apple spent five years building that lock.
If you own a Mac, the security guarantee Apple sold you on the M5 keynote took five days to crack with a model your enterprise is already paying for productivity work.
2. Seventy percent of Americans don't want a data center built near them. That's less popular than a nuclear plant.
If you live in or near a town that hosts (or wants to host) an AI data center, the Gallup line is now the single piece of evidence a council member can point to when they cast the vote against approval.
news.gallup.com/poll/709772/americans-oppose-data-centers-area.aspx
3. OpenAI agreed to outside audits in Illinois's AI bill — the first time a major lab has signed on to one in state law.
If you use AI tools at work, the rules they will be measured by next year are being written this month, and the largest vendor just agreed to be audited by someone outside its own building.
transformernews.ai/p/is-openai-changing-its-tune-on-ai-laws-illinois-regulation
4. Meta cut 8,000 the day after its earnings beat to fund $135B in AI capex.
If you work at a tech company, especially one that just announced an "AI-first" or "AI pod" reorganization, the Meta playbook is the one your finance team is now studying.
outlookbusiness.com/corporate/meta-to-cut-8000-jobs-on-may-20-what-employees-will-get-after-layoffs
5. A class action says ChatGPT shipped your private chats to Facebook and Google through ad trackers.
If you have ever typed a question into ChatGPT.com that you would not have asked Facebook out loud, the complaint says the question's topic, your session, and a cookie tying you back to your Facebook ID went to Meta anyway. That is the allegation; OpenAI gets to answer. But the…
cybernews.com/ai-news/openai-chatgpt-class-action-lawsuit-facebook-meta/