Venture Spending in Cybersecurity During Q3 2022 Dropped to Lowest Level Since Q4 2020
Funding dropped 10% between Q2 22 and Q3 22, total number of deals climbed by 9% from Q2 22 to Q3 22, average deal value dropped by 21% from Q2 22 to Q3 22
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AI safety has swiftly become Washington’s most combustible political snarl
Trump, Jensen Huang, Democratic 2028 hopefuls—and the unlikely alliance of Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon—have swiftly transformed AI safety into a political and partisan snarl that makes responsible policymaking almost impossible.
AI safety fears erupt into a global political and market crisis
Fears are rippling across global economies as Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk issue calls to slow down frontier AI development, thrusting once-fringe warnings about rogue AI into public consciousness even as Anthropic touts profitability ahead of a potentially record-setting IPO.
Spies, surveillance and rogue AI: Best infosec long reads 9/12/26
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AI shifts from cyber assistant to attack operator, Anthropic finds
Anthropic says Russian spies, criminals and hacktivists used Claude to accelerate and automate cyberattacks, while other actors pursued potential biological weapons research, military programs and industrial-scale theft of Anthropic’s models.