Tue. 02/20 – LockBit Ransomware Gang Taken Down

Perhaps the biggest law enforcement action against a ransomware gang ever. Once again, you could view other people’s cameras on your Wyze camera. How Anthropic is raising to do battle with OpenAI. Are the VCs flocking back to San Francisco? And comprehensive proof that defense tech is the new VC hotness.

Links:

• FBI Seizes LockBit Hacking Websites in Ransomware Disruption (Bloomberg)
• Wyze outage led to the cameras of 13,000 customers being shown to other users (9to5Google)
• Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO (Bloomberg)
• Inside the Funding Frenzy at Anthropic, One of A.I.’s Hottest Start-Ups (NYTimes)
• Tech Leaders Fled San Francisco During the Pandemic. Now, They’re Coming Back. (WSJ)
• UK, Allies Look to Arm Ukraine With AI-Enabled Swarm Drones (Bloomberg)
• How Silicon Valley learned to love America, drones and glory (Washington Post)
• Pursuing ‘American Dynamism,’ Andreessen Horowitz Ups Its Game in DC (Bloomberg)

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