Salesforce’s Rune Deal, Open-Model Cyber Risks, and AI’s Water Footprint
Salesforce’s proposed Rune Technologies acquisition would extend Missionforce into field logistics for the U.S. military. Also covered: Nathan Lambert on open-weight models and cybersecurity, the Anthropic Claude extension incident in Cursor, a review of AI’s water footprint, and updates involving Claude watermarks, ChatGPT, Datasette Agent and empathetic chatbot prompts.
Salesforce agrees to acquire AI logistics startup Rune Technologies in a reported deal worth $375 million.
Nathan Lambert examines open-weight models, vulnerability discovery and the wider cyber response.
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