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Meta's stock took a hit this week as investors pushed back against Mark Zuckerberg's aggressive AI spending plans. But Zuckerberg isn't backing down — he announced that Meta will, for the first time, begin selling AI tools directly to other businesses, signaling a significant pivot toward becoming an enterprise AI vendor.
Meanwhile, in a story that blurs the line between cyber warfare and conventional combat, Ukrainian hackers are claiming they manipulated Russian air defense systems into shooting down one of Moscow's own Su-fifty-seven fighter jets — a aircraft valued at roughly fifty million dollars. Russia is calling it a technical failure, but the claim, if true, represents a striking new frontier in how software can be turned into a weapon against its own operators.
On the personnel front, Lilian Weng, co-founder of Thinking Machines and former VP of AI Safety Research at OpenAI, has returned to OpenAI after departing her startup citing health reasons. Her return raises quiet but important questions about the state of AI safety leadership at a moment when the field is moving faster than perhaps anyone is comfortable with.
Those are the stories worth watching today. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
