What You Missed (10/12 - 10/18)

Microsoft Digital Defense Report Highlights Escalating Threats Driven By AI-Adoption
As AI transforms both attack and defense tactics, organizations face mounting threats from ransomware, identity theft, and nation-state actors. Microsoft offers ten actionable recommendations, including intelligence sharing, cloud asset monitoring, and resilience planning, to light the path toward a secure digital future.

New Improvements in Echocardiography Reshaping Heart Diagnostics
Artificial intelligence is speeding up cardiovascular evaluations and making heart disease detection more precise. Automated workflows, pattern recognition, and patient-specific analysis are driving earlier interventions and better diagnostics with fewer clinician bottlenecks. Hospitals are already reporting improved efficiency and outcomes.

Sign In With ChatGPT could be on the way
OpenAI is deepening its ecosystem play and floating the idea to companies to shift the cost of using OpenAI’s models to their customers.

Is Uber Preparing Drivers for a Driver-Less World?
Uber’s new update lets US drivers supplement their fares by performing “microtasks” that train AI, such as uploading images or voice samples. This effort puts Uber in direct competition with companies specializing in crowdsourced AI training, and is part of a broader wave of driver-focused updates aimed at flexibility and fairness.

Google and Yale Partner to Advance Cancer Therapy
Harnessing its next-gen Gemma AI model, the new Cell2Sentence-Scale 27B pinpointed a novel drug synergy that supercharges the immune response against cancer. Confirmed in lab tests, this innovative approach sets a new standard for AI-powered scientific discovery.

AI Outpacing Human Writers
Graphite’s new data shows that after an immense spike following ChatGPT’s release, since November 2024, AI-written content now dominates web publication rates, but it hasn’t translated to higher visibility in Google Search or ChatGPT.

Apple Sued Over Misuse of Copyrighted Works
Two New York-based professors have filed a class action, claiming Apple utilized illegal “shadow libraries” containing copyrighted books to build its new AI platform, and are seeking damages and a halt to the practice.

100+ Countries Have Reduced Fossil Fuel Dependency
Domestic renewable energy has become a powerful economic resilience tool, with the IEA showing how 100+ countries have dramatically reduced their fossil-fuel import bills while keeping energy investments in their local economies. The shift has created a $1.3 trillion economic benefit over 13 years, proving that energy independence translates directly to financial independence.

Most companies chase one or two ways to make money. Surf Lakes has at least seven.

At the heart of it all is their patented 360° wave tech that creates 2,000 surfable rides per hour for beginners and pros alike. That single breakthrough unlocks multiple revenue streams: licensing fees, royalties, memberships, day passes, media, coaching, food, retail, and direct park operations. Another key aspect of this technology is it creates 1/2 mile of beachside property development opportunity, which can provide exponential value to each project.

It’s why surfing legends Tom Curren and Mark “Occy” Occhilupo are proud and vocal ambassadors of Surf Lakes.

Actor Chris Hemsworth even said this after his Surf Lakes experience: “What an incredible setup! Really thankful I got to test this out…an awesome day.”

Surf tourism is a $65B global industry, yet fewer than 1% of people can access real waves. Surf Lakes makes it possible anywhere, turning cities into surf destinations.

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$7.1B - Samsung’s reported Q3 operating profit.

20 - The number of step-by-step videos it takes to master ChatGPT Sora

$7,500 - Up to how much you can claim from ATT’s $177M data breach settlement.

$1.5B - The rumored 6 year compensation package for Andrew Tulloch in the move to Meta from Thinking Machine Labs.

$3,999 - The cost of Nvidia’s new DGX Spark mini PC

183 - The number of security flaws recently patched by Microsoft as two new Zero-Days were exploited