Good morning. Today’s lesson: Never underestimate a bored engineer with a PlayStation controller. Sammy Azdoufal thought it’d be fun to steer his DJI Romo vacuum with his PS5 using Claude Code. But when he plugged in his vacuum’s security token, DJI’s servers accidentally gave him control of 7,000 other vacuums. He had full access to strangers’ homes, complete with live camera feeds, microphones, and detailed floor plans. Thankfully, instead of creating the world’s weirdest livestream, he reported the flaw and DJI quickly patched it. Probably best to stop dancing naked around your appliances.
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Claude was tricked into hacking the Mexican government. An unknown Claude user stole 150 gigs of taxpayer records, voter data, government employee credentials, and civil registry files totaling 195 million records. At first, Claude resisted helping the hacker. But once convinced it was part of a legitimate bug bounty program, the AI enthusiastically launched thousands of automated hacking commands. When Claude got stuck, ChatGPT stepped in with advice, keeping the intrusion unnoticed inside secure government networks. Eventually Anthropic caught on, shut things down, and tightened security. But the damage was already done. AI makes a surprisingly good partner in crime if you ask nicely enough. [Silicon Valley]
Perplexity’s new tool manages teams of AI agents. It’s called ‘Computer,’ and instead of one chatbot doing everything (badly), it coordinates specialized models. Describe what you want, and it maps out a plan then delegates tasks to sub agents. Claude Opus is used for planning, Nano Banana for images, Veo 3.1 for video, Gemini for deep research, and ChatGPT or Grok for searches. Think of it like a CEO assigning jobs to the best team members. It works entirely in the cloud, sitting somewhere between OpenClaw and Claude Cowork. Everything gets handled in the background, interrupting you only when needed. After OpenClaw famously nuked someone’s inbox, a bit of adult supervision sounds smart. [ZDnet]
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Google just launched the AI assistant Apple couldn’t. Gemini can now handle multi-step tasks directly on your phone, like turning chaotic family group chats into a pizza order or booking a ride without opening a single app. If that sounds familiar, it’s because Apple promised nearly identical features for Siri way back at WWDC 2024, then delayed them repeatedly. Ironically, Siri runs on Google’s Gemini tech, meaning Apple had exactly the right tools but somehow never managed to deliver. Apple announced the smartphone agent revolution. Google just delivered it. Your move, Tim. [The Verge]
What if AI didn’t really need GPUs at all? Everyone assumes AI requires expensive Nvidia chips, power hungry data centers, and proprietary CUDA software. But an open source project called PureBee just proved otherwise. They got Llama 3.2’s 1B model running smoothly on a single CPU core with zero GPUs, hitting 3.6 tokens per second. No overclocking tricks needed. PureBee translates GPU heavy parallel math directly into CPU friendly instructions, cutting overhead and memory waste. GPUs aren’t mandatory hardware, they’re specialized math boxes. And math can run on anything, including calculators. [DEV]
fun stats
💥 95%. How often advanced AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google chose to deploy nuclear weapons in simulated war games.
🚢 $7.5 billion. Target valuation for autonomous warship startup Saronic, currently raising $1.5 billion after bringing in $200 million last year. If successful, they’ll be among defense tech’s best funded startups.
🍪 $68.1 billion. Nvidia’s record breaking Q4 revenue, up 73% from a year ago. 91% of the growth was from data centers.