Cybersecurity experts Jeff Crume and Patrick Fussell outline the essential skills, mindset, certifications, and career paths for aspiring ethical hackers, offering practical advice for breaking into the field of penetration testing and red teaming.
Yoni Leitersdorf, CEO of Solid, explains that directly applying Large Language Models (LLMs) to databases for text-to-SQL fails due to a lack of business context. He introduces the concept of a semantic layer as a critical "Rosetta Stone" that translates raw data into a meaningful format AI can understand, enabling reliable and accurate data interaction.
Nick Coult from AWS explains that the future of serverless is not a replacement but an essential foundation for the rise of AI agents. This talk explores the core benefits of serverless, its synergy with event-driven architectures, and how agentic AI and agentic workflows will rely on serverless principles to scale and operate effectively.
A discussion on novel methods for hijacking AI agents through social engineering, the evolution of DDoS attacks, the legacy of Zero Trust, and the glaring security flaws in AI training data apps.
A detailed overview of OpenAI's announcement of Sora 2, a flagship video and audio generation model, and the new Sora app, which introduces novel features like "Cameo" for personalized content creation and a new social experience.
Anthropic's Head of Pre-training, Nick Joseph, details the immense engineering and infrastructure challenges behind training frontier models like Claude. He covers the evolution from early-stage custom frameworks to debugging hardware at massive scale, balancing pre-training with RL, and the strategic importance of data quality and team composition.