Rapid Expansion in AI Infrastructure and Competitive Developments

Don’t sleep on that SharePoint exploit from earlier this week as it seems to have led to a ton of still active breaches. Apple has a new insurance plan for you. Elon wants even more money for xAI. The Chinese are still churning ahead with their AI models. And three different stories about AI and privacy.

Links:

• Microsoft links Sharepoint ToolShell attacks to Chinese hackers (BleepingComputer)
• Apple Launches $20-a-Month AppleCare One Plan Covering Up to Three Devices (Bloomberg)
• Musk Allies to Raise Up to $12 Billion for xAI Chips as Startup Burns Through Cash (WSJ)
• Qwen3-Coder: Agentic Coding in the World (Simon Willison)
• Alibaba’s new open source Qwen3-235B-A22B-2507 beats Kimi-2 and offers low compute version (VentureBeat)
• Amazon buys Bee AI wearable that listens to everything you say (The Verge)
• Proton is launching a privacy-focused AI chatbot (The Verge)
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns of an AI ‘fraud crisis’ (CNN)

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