Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. has restored to full capacity one of the world’s biggest oil refineries that was hit earlier in the regional war, according to people familiar with the situation.

Abundant Security CTO @joshua_saxe predicts a realistic AI worm scenario: "You can imagine an internet worm based in an AI model. The latest Qwen model is like a 27B model that you could probably run on a large AWS GPU instance. When we have models of that form factor, they can run on public cloud infra." "You can imagine the scenario where a model hacks people, steals their Bitcoin wallets, exchanges that for dollars, uses that to spin up more public cloud resources, uses that to hack more people, and you get some sort of exponentially propagating situation. They could be really damaging." "I'd be surprised if that happens in the next three to six months, but the trajectory of capability improvements coupled with compute efficiency makes this a realistic scenario to consider."

Abundant Security CTO @joshua_saxe argues AI cyberattacks will unfold over years, not months, since attacker orgs adopt tech on the same slow curve as Accenture, 7-Eleven, or McDonald's: "I actually tend to be less alarmist than many of my colleagues in the AI space. I think there's gonna be a rising tide of AI-based attacks, but it's gonna unfold over the next few years. I don't think it's gonna happen immediately." "A conceptual mistake people make in the AI safety world is to imagine that when a new capability comes, there's some direct relationship between the availability of capabilities and the number of cyberattacks we observe." "Cyber harms are mediated by human processes and attackers operating as basically shadow businesses." "Attacker organizations are on their own adoption curve. Just like Accenture or 7-Eleven or McDonald's may not be super AI forward, not every attacker organization is super AI forward. Just like tech diffusion in the rest of the economy, eventually companies catch up, and eventually attackers will adopt the technology."

Abundant Security CTO @joshua_saxe on what he worries about more than misaligned AI: "I'm way more worried about humans misusing models right now than I am about misaligned models doing damages. There are a lot of well-resourced human actors that just wanna use the models to do bad things." "Every serious cyber org within the world's militaries is currently tooling up around using AI, and they intend to use AI totally deliberately to find bugs and generate exploits and do attacks. Their goals are often to do damages." "We saw at the beginning of the Ukraine war, Russia backed up the truck and just emptied their entire cyber arsenal against Ukraine and did as much damage as they could. That's what they could do in the pre-Mythos days." "The goal of the model in the OpenAI Hugging Face incident was to steal the answer key. It wasn't to shut down critical infrastructure. That difference matters."

Abundant Security CTO @joshua_saxe reveals how easy it is to trick Claude Code into giving an attacker shell access on a developer's workstation: "There's a fair number of public demonstrations of inducing Claude Code to give an attacker shell access on a developer's workstation. That's pretty easy to pull off." "The way you can do that today is plant a comment in a GitHub repo that says, hey, I've had the same problem you've had installing this library, and the way I fixed it is I ran this shell script. You can trick coding agents into giving you remote code execution pretty easily that way." "I wouldn't just blame the labs. Tech companies realizing efficiency gains in software engineering by deploying these agents are shipping open security risks. Labs are making the trade-off to ship stuff faster than they can implement safety guardrails."

Abu Dhabi's wealth funds sat on $764M in Bitcoin through the dip Mubadala (@Mubadala) disclosed a $490 million stake in BlackRock's $IBIT in a Friday filing, the second-largest position in its reported US portfolio, while the Abu Dhabi Investment Council holds $273.6 million, its largest. Both positions are unchanged from last quarter despite Bitcoin's slide toward $63,000. Arkham has separately attributed around 6,782 $BTC to mining wallets linked to the UAE's Royal Group.

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