OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and more than 100 other companies warned today there's only months to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks, Axios' Sam Sabin reports.

• Hospitals, water treatment plants and other critical infrastructure will face a swarm of hacking threats as AI makes sophisticated cyber capabilities cheaper and more accessible, the group writes in an open letter. (Read.)

🛡️ The group is calling for "collective action," and urges organizations to secure critical infrastructure.

• Signatories include a range of cloud providers, cybersecurity companies, AI companies, telecoms and financial services companies, and think tanks.

The organizations lay out a plan for how all companies and governments, as well as cybersecurity and AI companies, need to adapt.

• Organizations need to raise their internal security standards and fix their "highest-risk weaknesses," the group says. They also should "raise the security bar for what you buy, build, and deploy, including AI-generated code."

🤖 Cybersecurity and tech companies must quickly test and build out tools that make "AI-powered defense accessible and deployable for critical-infrastructure operators."

• Governments need to strengthen channels for sharing actionable threat intelligence, coordinate defense at the local, national and international levels, and fund cyber defense.
• Frontier AI companies should give defenders access to their most capable response models during major cyber incidents, along with "significant funding, training, and hands-on support."

👾 The letter comes amid a wave of cyberattacks against critical infrastructure, including one targeting U.S. water systems with an apparent AI-generated script.

• The signatories didn't make any commitments, deadlines or specific investments.

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🌒 The phenomenon peaks just after midnight Eastern Time, when about 96% of the Moon will fall into shadow.

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Tech company Hugging Face today unveiled "Microduck," a small duck-like robot that waddles and picks up small objects in its "beak," Axios' Ina Fried reports.

• The move is an effort to put a friendly, approachable face on a robotics field dominated by attack dogs and humanoids.

The $399 Microduck comes in several colors and has many sensors, including an eye-like camera, speaker, microphone, WiFi, Bluetooth and even a small lidar sensor.

• It will come with several preset behaviors, like following a laser pointer.
• In sample videos, Microduck was also shown picking up a dirty sock, rollerblading, and recovering from falls and efforts to push it off balance.

The target audience: AI developers who can teach the robot new tricks.

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