AI Can Outpace Cybersecurity Norms ‘in Months’, Says Spy Alliance
AI Can Outpace Cybersecurity Norms ‘in Months’, Says Spy Alliance
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Publish Date: 2026-06-23 03:53:00
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The most advanced artificial intelligence models are improving quickly enough to outsmart prevailing cybersecurity know-how within months, the Five Eyes spy agency alliance has warned.The risk posed by AI-enhanced hacking is in the spotlight, after US startup Anthropic said in April that its cutting-edge Mythos models had unprecedented abilities to find software vulnerabilities, reported AFP.The security agencies of Britain, the United States, Australia, Canada and New Zealand urged governments and businesses to act swiftly to prepare themselves as AI evolves.“The rapid pace of frontier AI development means cyber risk assumptions can become outdated in months, not years,” said a joint statement dated Monday.AI “lowers barriers for malicious actors and increases the speed and complexity of attacks”, the Five Eyes advisory said.“Breaches will occur. Preparedness helps you contain them quickly and prevent escalation into major operational and financial crises.”To improve cyber defenses, organizations should integrate AI tools into their security operations, update old systems and limit access to critical systems among other steps, they said.Anthropic this month suspended access to Mythos 5 and a restricted version called Fable 5 to comply with a US national security order.Just days after publicly launching Fable 5, the company said it had received a government directive banning all foreign nationals from accessing the two models.The intervention is striking for a White House that has otherwise pushed to loosen AI oversight — even moving to block states from writing their own rules.
Meta has tapped Indian fintech founder Kunal Shah as the new head of WhatsApp, as the US tech giant seeks ways to monetize the messaging app’s massive user base.The announcement, made Monday night, was accompanied by news that Meta would also lead a $900 million funding round in Shah’s consumer finance firm CRED.“Kunal built CRED into one of India’s most important technology companies,” Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement.“He brings the kind of builder mentality and global perspective that will serve him well in running the world’s biggest messaging app.”Shah, a serial entrepreneur and influential figure in India’s fintech world, started CRED in 2018 after selling an earlier payments startup to Indian e-commerce giant Snapdeal for roughly $400 million.He is also one of India’s most prolific angel investors, according to data tracker Tracxn, with the local financial press often reporting how Shah agrees to seed funding pitches within minutes of hearing them.But over the last few years, Shah has focused on building CRED — which got its start by offering rewards to customers for timely credit card payments.Since then, the company has aggressively expanded into offering wealth management, insurance and lending services to its 17 million users.This experience is likely to help WhatsApp as it seeks new revenue streams that go beyond the core advertising business of Meta, which also runs Facebook and Instagram.While India is WhatsApp’s largest market — with over half a billion users, according to 2021 government figures — analysts say it has largely missed the chance to build an equally popular payments service.In May, the messaging app offered businesses in India the ability to use artificial intelligence for services including responding to customers at all hours or booking appointments.Shah acknowledged the scope for future growth, saying in a statement that the gap between “WhatsApp today and its full potential is massive”.India’s startup ecosystem also celebrated Shah’s appointment — the latest example of an Indian-born executive becoming the leader of a Silicon Valley company.Sajith Pai of Blume Ventures, an early stage Indian start-up backer said Shah was getting an “even bigger canvas to paint his bold brushstrokes in”.“Great news for everyone in the Indian startup ecosystem, and for India!”
Wikipedia does not trust artificial intelligence enough to let it play a direct role in editing articles on its platform, co-founder Jimmy Wales told AFP on Monday.The problem of AI “hallucinations” — in which fabricated output is confidently presented — has been reduced with newer AI models but remains “very, very bad”, Wales said on the sidelines of a climate action week event in London.He added, however, that AI agents could prove useful in alerting Wikipedia’s community of millions of editors to certain niche news that would otherwise be missed.“We would not let it edit directly because you can’t really trust it enough,” he said.Artificial intelligence platforms, meanwhile, rely on Wikipedia’s content to answer users’ questions.That has contributed to an overall growth in visitors to the site from AI bots, while human traffic has dropped eight percent.Wales, who sits on the board of trustees at the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, described the fall in human traffic as “meaningful” but “not a disaster,” for the online encyclopedia, which ranks among the 10 most visited websites in the world.The site, created in 2001, depends on donations from users so its business model does not directly rely on traffic.Wales encouraged AI companies to “pay their fair share”, because “hammering us with millions of requests costs real money,” in the cost of running servers.Wikipedia has already been “very successful” in signing agreements with several tech giants, the founder said.“We’re starting to block the ones who aren’t behaving themselves, but we’ll see how that goes.”
SK Hynix on Monday overtook Samsung Electronics to become South Korea’s most valuable listed company, marking a dramatic reversal of fortunes for a chipmaker that two decades ago nearly collapsed under debt.The company, now the dominant supplier of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips used in AI systems for customers such as Nvidia and Alphabet’s Google, has emerged as one of the biggest beneficiaries of the global AI boom, propelling a more than 340% rally in its shares this year and lifting its market value above both Samsung Electronics and Micron.Shares of SK Hynix, now the world’s most valuable memory chipmaker, traded up 5.7% to bring the company’s market capitalization to 2,082.5 trillion won ($1.35 trillion) as of 0347 GMT, compared with gains of 0.4% in Samsung Electronics to 2,081.3 trillion won, excluding preferred shares.The stock hit the milestone as AI reshapes the global semiconductor industry, elevating specialized memory chips from commonly traded commodities into critical components of the infrastructure powering applications such as ChatGPT and advanced AI models.SK Hynix focuses primarily on memory chips, whereas Samsung Electronics also manufactures logic chips and consumer electronics such as smartphones and TVs. Samsung Electronics had held the top spot since 2000.“The emergence of customized AI memory fundamentally changed the industry’s economics and allowed SK Hynix to establish itself as the market leader,” said Kim Sunwoo, a senior analyst at Meritz Securities.Samsung said in a statement that any calculation of its market capitalization should include preferred shares, which would bring the value to around 2,252 trillion won.SK Hynix’s soaring share price marks the culmination of one of the biggest turnarounds in South Korea’s corporate history.In 2002, then-Hynix Semiconductor was on the verge of being sold to Micron, having been crippled by debt accumulated during an aggressive expansion drive.The deal eventually fell through, leaving the company under creditor control for nearly a decade. Its shares plunged as low as 135 won in 2003, leaving it viewed as a penny stock, or “Dongjeon-ju” in Korean.Its fortunes in the years since tracked the global memory industry’s traditional boom-and-bust cycle.In 2023, a severe downturn battered memory prices, pushing SK Hynix to report an annual operating loss of 7.73 trillion won.It started recovering a year later as the AI boom gained momentum and the likes of Microsoft, Google and Meta invested heavily, pushing it to report an annual operating profit of 23.5 trillion won in 2024, a record at the time.TURNAROUNDAnalysts attribute SK Hynix’s central role in the global AI ecosystem to its decision to continue investing in HBM, a specialized memory chip stacked vertically to deliver faster performance and lower power consumption, during a downturn in the memory industry.Unlike conventional memory products, HBM chips are tightly integrated with AI processors, creating significantly higher barriers to entry and giving suppliers greater pricing power.By 2025, SK Hynix captured 61% of the global HBM market, far ahead of Samsung Electronics’ 17% and Micron’s 21%.SK Hynix was founded in 1983 as a unit of Hyundai, but was later spun off and purchased by SK Group, the family-run “chaebol” conglomerate whose businesses span telecoms to energy.SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won, who faced strong opposition to the deal at the time, explained his thinking in a book published in January.“What I really wanted to accomplish when we acquired Hynix was to transform it from a commodity memory producer into a mainstream semiconductor company whose products are indispensable,” Chey said.“In the past, it did not matter whether memory came from Hynix, Samsung or Micron. They were interchangeable commodity products. HBM is different. If SK Hynix’s HBM is replaced with another product, the AI system may not function properly. What used to be a peripheral component has become a core component,” Chey said.Analysts say that Samsung’s position as the world’s largest DRAM producer could also be under threat by SK Hynix.Bank of America estimates that SK Hynix’s monthly DRAM output will reach about 589,000 wafers this year, compared with roughly 691,000 wafers for Samsung Electronics.However, SK Hynix is likely to expand DRAM output by about 38% between 2025 and 2028, compared with about 17.5% growth at its rival. That would narrow SK Hynix’s production gap to less than 10% by 2028 from about 23% in 2025, which would be a particularly significant achievement because of Samsung’s larger manufacturing scale.“Previously, the difference in manufacturing scale meant there was simply no way for rivals to close the profitability gap with Samsung,” said Kim. Reuters has reported that SK Hynix is opting to choose the Nasdaq for its planned US listing, which would broaden the company’s investor base and raise its profile further among global investors.
