New Apple CEO, OpenAI's New Image Model, Vercel AI Hack

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Apple CEO Tim Cook is officially stepping down on September 1st, and John Tarnas is gonna become the CEO. This is really interesting. There's a lot of AI things at play for Apple, and they really haven't delivered on their AI promise. We're gonna be getting into that. Vercel, the company that I personally use for being my web host for all of my AI tools, has had a major security incident because of an AI tool that one of their employees was using. And the FTC just dropped a settlement with Clarify over the company using 3 million OkCupid photos to train facial recognition. Snapchat laid off around 1000 people and said that it is part of their AI initiative because AI is writing more than 65% of their new code. They dropped a major new image model over at OpenAI called Image 2 that is a huge step up. I've been playing with it today. We'll talk about that. And in addition, Anthropic's Mithos model has of course, it's starting to get a bad rep and Sam Altman is going and calling them out for their fear-based marketing. They also signed a huge enterprise deal at Novo Nordisk, the Ozempic company we'll be talking about. And I think one of the biggest stories is that Amazon is pouring over $25 billion into Anthropic on top of the $100 billion that the AWS team has already committed. Now, if you're still paying for ChatGPT, Claw, Gemini, Grok, any of the audio models, 11 Labs for audio and any of the image models, I've got to tell you about AI Box. This is what I personally have built. It's what I'm recommending to my friends who ask me how to actually use AI without going broke on the subscriptions. You get access to over 80 different AI models in one place, all of the top models, so you can pick whichever one is best for the task that you are doing. The part that I think is super useful is our automation builder that we have just created. You describe what you want in plain English and it builds out a workflow for you. You don't need to know how to code, you don't need to know how to wrestle with a new platform. You describe what you want and it builds it for you. So it's $8.99 a month, and I hope this is something that saves you a ton of money and is incredibly useful for getting your hands on all of the different AI models to use them. All right, let's talk about Vercel's security breach. This is the company behind Next.js. They host a huge chunk of the modern web. I basically create all of my new AI apps on them, and they have confirmed that they have got breached and customer data was stolen. But this is the interesting part for me in particular. They don't get hacked directly.
The attacker actually broke into Context AI, which is an AI tool that Vercel, one of their employees was using. And from there, they got into that employee's Google workspace and from there into Vercel's environment. So there's kind of like this multi-step approach that they took in order to get in. And the original compromise actually happened back in February, we're just hearing about it now. I feel like this is how a lot of these kind of attacks happen, the event happens, they don't really want to leak it, and then it finally comes out. So a Context AI employee actually got hit with the InfoStealer malware, and the attacker basically just sat on the valid credentials until they could chain them into something bigger. Vercel says that the number of affected customers is limited, but a group claiming to be, they're calling themselves Shiny Hunters, is on hacker forums trying to sell API keys, source code, and database data that they say they pulled from this whole hack. So in my opinion, every company right now is bolting AI tools onto their stack, and every new tool is a new vendor, it's new credentials, it's a new way for attackers to get in. I think if you're gonna see, a lot of these new AI tools get built, we're also gonna see a lot more AI adjacent supply chain breaches. This is gonna happen more before it gets better. If you're at a company, audit who has access to what through your AI tools. I don't think this is something theoretical, I think everyone should be thinking about this. The FTC also just settled with the AI company called Clarify over the use of 3 million photos from OkCupid, that's the dating website, and they use these to train facial recognition AI. And the best part is that they actually have receipts. So the Clarify CEO literally emailed the OkCupid co-founder saying, quote, we're collecting data now and just realized that OkCupid must have a huge amount of awesome data for this. The photos were then shared, going back, all of the photos that they had were shared going back to 2014