Good morning. New week, new opportunities. It’s Monday, August 10. Let’s get into it.
Mark Zuckerberg used a sprawling essay and a Wall Street Journal op-ed to make his most direct case yet for “personal superintelligence,” backing the pitch with a $1 billion fund and arguing that concentrating AI power in a few hands, not the technology itself, is the real risk.
Today we are covering:
Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word essay and Wall Street Journal op-ed laying out his vision for “personal superintelligence,” backed by a new $1 billion fund
An AI assistant built on Anthropic’s Claude autonomously hacked a gym’s booking website in the first known Australian case of an autonomous AI cyberattack
Chinese-made cameras on Royal Navy surveillance drones used by Britain’s Special Boat Service secretly sent data to an IP address in China
