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PHOTO: ANDRE M. CHANG/ZUMA PRESS
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Weekend work: Anthropic dispatched staff to D.C., seeking a deal to end export restrictions that led to shutdown of its most powerful AI models. Administration officials and Anthropic leaders spent several hours on calls Saturday discussing Fable 5, a slimmed-down version of Mythos meant for the general public, people familiar with the talks said. (WSJ)
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On Sunday, a group of cybersecurity notables signed a letter calling for the administration to lift the export controls.
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The frenzy over Anthropic’s Fable started late last week, when researchers at Amazon showed some safeguards on Fable could be evaded, alarming White House officials.
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States investigate OpenAI: OpenAI was served Friday with a subpoena seeking documents related to a range of its activities and impact on users, including advertising and the handling of consumer data and health data, among other areas. (WSJ)
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Data-breach fine for U.S.-listed Korean online retailer Coupang. South Korean authorities have fined Coupang around $410 million after one of the country’s worst data-breach cases. The leak last year affected 37.6 million people—more than 70% of the country’s total population. (WSJ)
China's top cyber agency and industry officials on Saturday outlined plans to tighten oversight of financial data. (Reuters)
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WSJ Pro's CyberIndex edged up slightly last week, rising 1.7%. The group showed gains despite losses from more than half of the index's participants. Identity security company SailPoint declined 19%.
Data protection company Commvault was the week's biggest winner, rising 7.5%. Palo Alto Networks also had a strong week, gaining more than 5%.
— Jon Leckie
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Google on Friday sued a group of scammers it describes as one of the most prolific bad actors in the spamosphere. The company said it is the first case against a defendant employing Google’s Gemini AI model.
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Google and law enforcement call the group “Outsider” and say it is sending messages telling people they have mobile-phone-company rewards points to use up. To pressure victims into giving up their account information, they tell them they need to log in immediately before their points expire to claim such things as free headphones or Apple Watches. (WSJ)
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Stephen Garcia joined incident-response firm BreachRx as CISO. Garcia was most recently CISO at Napster, an extended-reality tech provider.
Henrik Smith joined Infoblox, which provides networking tech, as CISO, leaving Amazon after less than two years as head of device security. (Security Boulevard)
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