welcome 🥳

RT to help Simon raise awareness of prompt injection attacks in LLMs. Feels a bit like the wild west of early computing, with computer viruses (now = malicious prompts hiding in web data/tools), and not well developed defenses (antivirus, or a lot more developed kernel/user

slack huddle waiting music 'focus beats' has no business being this good

hi! i will be at defcon in 3 weeks, and likely to pass by berkeley before (for the agentic AI summit & maybe some of SBC). if anyone is around and would like to chat about any of the below -- please let me know!

will also be passing by nyc if anyone is around & would like to hang!

officially in bay area! running a small roundtable ~10ppl in berkeley in a few days on aria-related topics — if anyone is really interested and would like to join, please let me know :)

1/ 🚨 Calling all ambitious researchers + engineers! 🚨 We’re launching the FRC Launchpad (FRCL), a new programme with ARIA bringing together world-class engineers and researchers, part of the UK Horizons program to supercharge the UK's R&D ecosystem.

"BBNs" have officially been given a government name: Frontier Research Contractors. The reason why: ARIA has funded a program to help found and scale them! This is a testament to ARIA's ambition. It's the only pot of funds in the world dedicated to launching these orgs

had a lovely time in berkeley for sbc! great to see old friends, make new ones & to introduce some of our focus at aria now in vegas, today for the AI Security Forum and for the next days for DEF CON! reach out if you’re around 💫

love the scrappy lunal.dev TEE business cards (a card & a bag of green tea clipped onto it😂) from aminoacid & ansgar grunseid

Former NSA Director Paul Nakasone just did a jello shot with DEF CON founder Jeff Moss as day 1 of the conference kicks off.