Copilot tricked into telling reseachers how to hack itself

Researchers manipulated Microsoft Copilot Personal into telling them how to hack the AI assistant – eventually tricking it into sending sensitive data to an external server and poisoning its persistent memory, by repeatedly asking Copilot why an attack wouldn’t work....

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Build the world we want: Solutions for the next decade

Over the past decade, we have gotten genuinely good at something difficult: finding remarkable entrepreneurs who use technology for good. We’ve built the prizes, the pipelines, the accelerators. What we haven’t cracked is harder: making their solutions truly stick....

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Tokenmaxxing is out, valuemaxxing is in

It may be game over for gamified token consumption. Tesla spent six months ranking its engineers on internal AI leaderboards by token usage, then thought better of it and capped employee AI spending at $200 per week. This should sound familiar. Uber, Meta, Amazon,...

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Executives don’t need more willpower

The most disciplined executives I’ve trained have something in common: they stopped relying on discipline. They know that willpower is the least reliable resource in their arsenal—the same reason they don’t run their P&L on individual heroics, or their pipeline on...

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AI coding tools unlock small software

I’ve been programming for about 40 years. Lately, I’ve started creating new programs between meetings. The difference is that I can now hand much of the mechanical work to an AI coding tool, then spend my time fixing the interesting parts. They may not be the best...

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