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Matthew Pines

@matthew_pines
27 posts
2025-05-13
Post “Geneva Mechanism”, might a “Riyadh Accord” be in the works bundling petrodollars/green hydrogen, arms deals, beef settling/rebuilding, AI/chips, & gold/bitcoin? A realignment of trade, tech, monetary, & security corridors...? Disentangle US from ME while boxing China out?
2025-05-13 View on X
Bloomberg

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the company will send AI chips to Saudi Arabia's Humain for a 500 MW data center buildout, as President Trump visits the kingdom

Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang announced the partnership on stage at the Saudi-US Investment Forum in Riyadh, the Gulf nation's capital.

*everyone* is in Riyadh...
2025-05-13 View on X
Bloomberg

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the company will send AI chips to Saudi Arabia's Humain for a 500 MW data center buildout, as President Trump visits the kingdom

Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang announced the partnership on stage at the Saudi-US Investment Forum in Riyadh, the Gulf nation's capital.

2025-01-02
Office of Foreign Assets Control, Office of the Treasury Secretary, and the Office of Financial Research...
2025-01-02 View on X
Washington Post

Sources: Chinese government hackers breached the US Treasury Department's OFAC, which administers economic sanctions, and two other Treasury offices

Treasury's sanctions office hacked by Chinese government, officials say A troubling series of breaches of U.S. firms and agencies …

2024-12-29
I think the Salt Typhoon hacks will be seen as the worst counterintelligence breach in US history. Though not reported yet, seems likely that the MSS compromised the FISA “selectors” in US telcos. The fallout from this is unfathomable. FBI NSD damage assessment is max pain rn.
2024-12-29 View on X
Bloomberg

AT&T and Verizon say their networks are now clear after the Salt Typhoon intrusion; AT&T says a few “individuals of foreign intelligence interest” were targeted

- Carriers said hackers targeted political, intelligence figures  — White House said nine telecom companies were victims

Not to mention the criminal cases that may now be fatally weakened by the integrity of Title III wiretaps being credibly compromised.
2024-12-29 View on X
Bloomberg

AT&T and Verizon say their networks are now clear after the Salt Typhoon intrusion; AT&T says a few “individuals of foreign intelligence interest” were targeted

- Carriers said hackers targeted political, intelligence figures  — White House said nine telecom companies were victims

2024-09-23
Re-upping: https://www.sentinelone.com/ ... [image]
2024-09-23 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: TSMC and Samsung executives have visited the UAE and are considering building UAE-funded chip factories; TSMC denies any new international expansion

Wall Street Journal :

2024-05-14
Some loose thoughts: It looks like a co-founder of MineOne, Jiaming Li, is also President of Bit Origin (ticker: BTOG, formerly called China Xiangtai Food Co., which pivoted form pork processing to bitcoin) whose mining subsidiary is SonicHash, which also runs a site in... [image]
2024-05-14 View on X
Reuters

The US orders China-linked crypto mining company MineOne to sell property the company bought near an Air Force base in Wyoming, citing a national security risk

The White House on Monday gave a Chinese-linked company and its partners 120 days to sell property they had bought near …

2024-03-01
It's all about the data—robots are the only real way to get the quantities of real-world physics and task-based training data needed to keep scaling multimodal models.
2024-03-01 View on X
CNBC

Robotics startup Figure AI confirms raising $675M at a $2.6B valuation and is partnering with OpenAI to “develop next-generation AI models for humanoid robots”

we're collaborating with @Figure_robot to expand our multimodal models to robotic perception, reasoning, and interaction. https://www.prnewswire.com/... Adam Cochran / @adamscochra...

2024-01-21
Microsoft disclosed today that the Russian SVR popped “members of our senior leadership team and employees in our cybersecurity, legal, and other functions, and exfiltrated some emails and attached documents.” https://www.sec.gov/... [image]
2024-01-21 View on X
Bloomberg

Microsoft says Russia-linked group Midnight Blizzard hacked some employee emails beginning in November 2023; the same group breached SolarWinds as early as 2019

- Nation-state spies previously conducted cyber-espionage on US  — Targeted breaches hit Microsoft executives, cyber team

2024-01-20
Microsoft disclosed today that the Russian SVR popped “members of our senior leadership team and employees in our cybersecurity, legal, and other functions, and exfiltrated some emails and attached documents.” https://www.sec.gov/... [image]
2024-01-20 View on X
Bloomberg

Microsoft says Russia-linked group Midnight Blizzard hacked some employee emails beginning in November 2023; the same group breached SolarWinds as early as 2019

- Nation-state spies previously conducted cyber-espionage on US  — Targeted breaches hit Microsoft executives, cyber team

2024-01-18
“In a deal to let companies keep trading transatlantic data, the White House built an opaque new forum that could affect national security and privacy rights — without any public paper trail.” The data must flow. https://www.politico.com/...
2024-01-18 View on X
Politico

A look at the US Data Protection Review Court, authorized in October 2022 to resume US-EU data transfers and which issues secret rulings, raising privacy fears

without any public paper trail.” The data must flow. https://www.politico.com/... Bradley P. Moss / @bradmossesq : <rubs eyes> I'm sorry, a new one? Inside Biden's secret surveilla...

2024-01-12
Sen. Warren doesn't want “basic anti-money laundering rules” on crypto. She wants to ban permissionless blockchains in the US. She wants all crypto network validators, developers & providers of “unhosted wallets” to register before publishing code or relaying network data. No.
2024-01-12 View on X
Reuters

LSEG: US bitcoin ETFs saw $4.6B worth of shares traded on January 11, their first day of trading; Grayscale, BlackRock, and Fidelity dominated trading volumes

U.S.-listed bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) saw $4.6 billion worth of shares trade hands as of Thursday afternoon …

Sen. Warren doesn't want “basic anti-money laundering rules” on crypto. She wants to ban permissionless blockchains in the US. She wants all crypto network validators, developers & providers of “unhosted wallets” to register before publishing code or relaying network data. No.
2024-01-12 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at SEC's hilariously grudging approval of bitcoin ETFs and the likelihood that they will be “physical” ETFs or interest-paying ETFs in the future

Matt Levine / Bloomberg :

2023-08-30
Among the many reasons why Japan will never join FVEY is their shambolic counterintelligence and cybersecurity capabilities. Exhibit A:
2023-08-30 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: Chinese-backed hackers breached Japanese cybersecurity agency NISC's email system; experts link the July 4 ransomware attack on Port of Nagoya to China

Infiltration comes as allies scrutinise Tokyo's defences against hacking  —  The organisation responsible for Japan's national defences …

2023-07-06
Four years to save humanity from its own creation... the race is on... https://twitter.com/...
2023-07-06 View on X
TechCrunch

OpenAI forms Superalignment, a team for developing ways to steer and control “superintelligent” AI systems, with access to 20% of its compute secured to date

OpenAI is forming a new team led by Ilya Sutskever, its chief scientist and one of the company's co-founders …

2023-06-28
The buried lead: “The administration is also considering restricting leasing of cloud services to Chinese AI companies, which have used such arrangements to skirt the export bans on advanced chips, some of the people familiar with the discussions say.”👇 https://twitter.com/...
2023-06-28 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: the US is considering new AI chip export restrictions to China as soon as July, which could even ban the sales of Nvidia's A800 chip without a license

Restrictions come amid concerns that China could use AI chips from Nvidia and others for weapon development and hacking

2023-05-11
This is a BFD. Major natsec risk. “...Rockwell does its code development, support and patching—updating software to fix vulnerabilities—using only Chinese nationals at the facility in Dalian, a port city at the southern tip of China's Liaoning province.” https://www.wsj.com/...
2023-05-11 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Documents and officials: the US is investigating if Rockwell Automation's facility in China is exposing critical government assets to a potential cyberattack

updating software to fix vulnerabilities—using only Chinese nationals at the facility in Dalian, a port city at the southern tip of China's Liaoning province.” https://www.wsj.com/...

2023-04-19
Imagine if we spent even a fraction of these billions on a crash program to find breakthroughs in fundamental physics. All the mega brains currently training chatbot LLMs shift to explore wolfram's hypergraph models, causal dynamical triangulation, geometric unity, E-8, etc... https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-19 View on X
Reuters

The European Union strike a provisional deal for its ~$47B Chips Act, which aims to double the bloc's share of global chip output to 20% by 2030

here's everything that's in it Tobias Mann / The Register : Europe finalizes €43B Chips Act it hopes will help free it from foreign fabs Jo He-rim / The Korea Herald : EU Chips Act...

2023-03-31
Remarkable level of detail in this leak. Revelatory of the key role contractors play supporting Russian intelligence objectives, spanning cyber-physical attack and disinformation capabilities. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-03-31 View on X
The Guardian

Leaked documents from Moscow-based NTC Vulkan reveal the company helps the GRU, FSB, and SVR with hacking operations, national infrastructure attacks, and more

2023-03-29
“If such a pause cannot be enacted quickly, governments should step in and institute a moratorium.” That'll work very well... https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-29 View on X
Future of Life Institute

Over 1,000 people, including Elon Musk, sign an open letter urging AI labs to pause training of systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months

We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.  —  Signatures