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AI:AM — Mistral Large 4, Open Models and AI Cyberattacks · October 30, 2026

Podcast: AI:AM · Prakash Narayanan & Nathan Labenz

Opublikowano: 2026-10-30

ServiceNow threat researcher Michael Freeman describes AI-driven compromises costing 5–10 cents, credential theft through support tickets, and why autonomous patching is not ready for critical infrastructure. Mistral researcher Sagar Vaze explains the rescue of Large 4 during training, its sparse trillion-parameter design, the push for stronger multimodal skills, and the case for open weights amid limited compute. Chapters (0:00) Open models and cheap cyberattacks (1:22) Why a $6B crypto heist can’t stay hidden (2:32) Meet Michael Freeman from ServiceNow (4:27) AI attackers now compromise companies for cents (6:26) Cheap footholds are becoming persistent acce...