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TNB Tech Minute: Chinese Hacking Campaign Hits Dozens of Countries

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Plus, OpenAI partners with defense-tech startup Anduril to include its technology in anti-drone systems. And OpenAI and Anthropic have opened offices in Switzerland to pursue employee talent. Danny Lewis hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Imagine this. A workforce so adaptable, it can pivot whenever your business pivots and a supply chain

0:05.8

that can handle the pressure. That's the revolutionary power of SAP Business AI. And that's just the

0:11.7

beginning. Revolutionary technology, real world's results. Here's your TNB Tech Minute for Wednesday,

0:19.3

December 4th. I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal.

0:23.2

Artificial intelligence firm OpenAI has struck a deal with defense startup and Daryl to include some of its technology in anti-dron systems.

0:31.6

It's a potentially lucrative reversal for the Chet GPT developer, which until this year banned its AI from being used for military purposes.

0:39.3

Anderil said OpenAI's technology could improve the accuracy and speed of its system's ability to respond to drone attacks.

0:46.3

Both companies declined to comment on the financial terms of the partnership.

0:51.3

Also, OpenAI and rival firm Anthropic have each opened offices in the Swiss city of Zurich.

0:58.0

The move by the two top startups in the AI sector underscores their efforts to expand outside of Silicon Valley in their search for employee talent.

1:06.0

An Anthropic spokesperson says the company has begun hiring locally.

1:10.0

Open AI says its new hires

1:12.0

would focus on research into AI that can understand and combine different kinds of information,

1:16.8

like text, images, and sound. We should note, News Corp, owner of the Wall Street Journal,

1:22.7

has a content licensing partnership with OpenAI. And a top U.S. security official says Chinese government hackers have compromised telecommunications

1:32.1

networks in dozens of countries as part of a massive, ongoing espionage campaign.

1:37.0

The Biden administration's deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technology,

1:42.7

Ann Newberger, says at least eight U.S.

1:44.9

telecoms networks have been breached in the so-called Salt Typhoon campaign.

1:49.4

Additionally, a senior administration official told the journal that hackers accessed a, quote,

1:55.1

large number of Americans' cell phone metadata in a likely attempt to identify the phone lines

2:00.3

of valuable senior government

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