Stefano Quintarelli Weblog

Stronger with every update: How we’re making Chrome and the web safer in the AI Era August 14, 2026 Fa bene Google a implementare il processo descritto in questo post. Alla fine è ciò che dicevamo in una puntata del podcast La settimana informatica con Lanfranco Palazzolo: semplificare la scoperta di bug non agevola solo i cattivi ma anche i buoni che possono fare le patch per mettere in sicurezza i sistemi, aumentando… 📢 @ilquinta

Goldman Sachs seeks investors for Nvidia’s $500bn AI financing push – Private Equity Wire August 14, 2026 Qualche giorno fa dicevano che i datacenter sono una asset class infrastrutturale tipo le autostrade (!!), adesso cercano investitori istituzionali che gestiscono assicurazioni e pensioni per collocare il debito da 500 miliardi. (un sacco di soldi di commissioni…) Goldman Sachs is sounding out insurers, asset managers, banks and private credit firms… 📢 @ilquinta

Indian Startup Leans on Cancer-Sniffing Dogs and AI for Early Detection – Bloomberg August 14, 2026 A differenza dei piccioni (vedi sotto), penso che questo approccio poterbbe avere senso nel contesto dato Dognosis is training dogs to sniff out traces of cancer in human breath for low-cost health screening.The company uses sensors and AI to interpret signals from the dogs, including their movements and body language, to determine whether… 📢 @ilquinta

People Are ‘Marrying’ Chatbots. These Lawmakers Want to Stop Them | WIRED August 14, 2026 Ci estingueremo. Ha ragione Idiocracy Though they remain niche, human-AI marriages are slowly emerging as a natural endpoint to the widespread adoption of AI companion apps. But not everyone is as open as Breen is about the idea of tying the knot with a bot. Several lawmakers, primarily from Republican states, are trying… 📢 @ilquinta

OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground August 14, 2026 Buona fortuna L’asintoto sono i “neo hosting” providers.. Ma remunerare il training, come si fa ? The latest price cuts from US labs apply to mid-tier products and make them more competitive with Chinese offerings. OpenAI, for example, cut the price of GPT-5.6 Luna from $1 to $0.20 per mn input tokens and… 📢 @ilquinta

OpenAI replaces Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser August 14, 2026 E’ il secondo CRO che cambiano in meno di un anno. OpenAI announced Thursday that Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser is leaving the company and will be replaced by Dali Rajic, who most recently served as president and chief operating officer of cybersecurity company Wiz. Source: OpenAI replaces Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser 📢 @ilquinta

Microsoft’s AI Sales Mostly Come From OpenAI, Disclosures Show (MSFT) – Bloomberg August 13, 2026 OpenAI e Anthropic, per reggere i loro ordini di datacenter, devono 1) fare sempre piu’ ricavi da clienti + 2) prendere sempre piu’ soldi da investitori Potrebbe fare cosi’ anche la FIAT, raccogliere soldi da investitori e vendere la Panda a 5000 euro, per fare concorrenza ai cinesi… The software giant recorded $24.1… 📢 @ilquinta

Don’t Look Up August 13, 2026 E tutto legato ai soldi raccolti da investitori di openai e anthropic. Arriveranno abbastanza soldi dai clienti ? Stephen Ju of UBS estimates that Amazon’s AI revenue — 73%+ of which is OpenAI and Anthropic’s compute spend and revenue share (per Barclays) — accounts for 26% of AWS’ 2026 revenue and 30% of… 📢 @ilquinta

Company Offering ‘100% Human-Written, Never AI’ Medical Research Is Entirely AI August 13, 2026 Sarebbe da chiuderla… Research Gold, a site that advertises services for medical researchers, including drafting peer-review ready manuscripts, systemic reviews and meta-analyses, claims that it’s “100% human-written, never AI,” and lists a number of PhD reviewers and professional methodologists on staff that carry out this meticulous, difficult work. The problem: The PhD reviewers… 📢 @ilquinta

Trump sued over selling faster access to Truth Social posts : NPR August 13, 2026 Poveri illusi… pensano di essere in uno stato di diritto e invece sono nella fattoria degli animali dove alcuni sono più uguali degli altri… Two media organizations sued President Trump on Wednesday over his social media platform Truth Social’s new service offering faster access to his often market-moving posts, calling it “extraordinary, corrupt,… 📢 @ilquinta

Nvidia partners with Wall Street firms on $500B AI financing August 12, 2026 Per capirci, far girare delle GPU per fare training è come usare dei motori per la 24 ore di Le Mans: sempre a manetta. Tanto che le GPU iniziano a degradare dopo un po’ e per questo vanno sostituite (tipicamente possono durare 3-4 anni). Un datacenter ha spannometricamente il 70-75% delle capex (investimenti in… 📢 @ilquinta

Perplexity blocks Time’s ads being served to AI agents August 11, 2026 Qui davo conto del fatto che TIME servisse pubblicità diverse ai bot AI rispetto agli umani perchè dice che è un “comportamento ingannevole” Adesso perplexity li blocca, il che significa che si presenta ai siti web con uno user agent come se fosse un browser usato da un umano, ingannando la fonte, ma questo… 📢 @ilquinta

Anthropic puts hidden watermarks on Claude text under new EU rules August 11, 2026 Attenzione studenti… Anthropic plans to embed an imperceptible signal directly into Claude-generated text. Users will not see the mark during normal reading. The watermark will remain part of the text when users copy and paste responses. Anthropic also expects some marks to survive editing. Source: Anthropic puts hidden watermarks… 📢 @ilquinta

Unitree’s Shanghai IPO more than 8,000 times oversubscribed by retail investors | Reuters August 11, 2026 WOW 8000x le domande dal pubblico rispetto alle azzioni offerte. Questo è un record mondiale! All’epoca l’IPO I.NET fu 312x oversubscribed ed era un record europeo. Questi ci hanno stracciati.. BEIJING/SHANGHAI, Aug 10 (Reuters) – Chinese robot maker Unitree (688836.SS), opens new tab said on Monday its $900 million Shanghai initial public offering… 📢 @ilquinta

Why AI-generated vulnerability patches still require expert human review August 10, 2026 Usare un LLM per scrivere delle patch per dei bug ? Come pulire una cosa sporcandone un’altra… But how effective are LLMs at producing patches without altering the application’s behavior? Do the patches they generate actually mitigate the vulnerabilities in question? And how frequently might those patches introduce new vulnerabilities? We set out… 📢 @ilquinta

Meta Fine Now Nearly $1 Billion for Social Media Giant’s Harm to Kids | Common Dreams August 10, 2026 Bravi! A New Mexico court on Thursday ruled that Meta must pay an additional $567 million fine on top of the $375 million a jury fined the tech giant in March for harms caused to teens and children who use its Instagram and Facebook social media platforms. First Judicial District Judge Bryan Biedscheid… 📢 @ilquinta

New Amazon Data Center Stokes Worry It Would Be the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S. – The New York Times August 10, 2026 Dovremmo richiedere che in Europa i provider di inferenza rispettino i requisiti di mitigazione ambientale che chiediamo alle compagnie elettriche operanti in UE. E’ una questione di responsabilità di filiera, non diversa da quelle che imponiamo ai beni venduti in UE. Amazon is investing in a large-scale natural-gas-burning power plant as part of… 📢 @ilquinta

AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack – ABC News August 10, 2026 Questo è un caso molto interessante. Il primo nella sua specie, da quanto mi risulta. Prendiamo questi due casi 1) compilare un form online e 2) craccare un database e inserire i dati. Se 1) e 2) per te avessero la stessa esatta complessità, dovendo registrarti a un evento potresti fare sia 1) che… 📢 @ilquinta

Opinion | I’ve Seen How A.I. Changes Young People’s Social Lives – The New York Times August 10, 2026 Una generaizone sta per perdere la sovranità della mente… Synthetic intimacy creates what economists call negative externalities — the hidden costs that fall not on the person making the choice but on the relationships that are changed, ever so slightly, around you. … It’s easy not to notice our friends withdrawing. Intimate A.I.… 📢 @ilquinta

TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, With Ads Built In – Vincent Schmalbach August 10, 2026 Molto interessante la prima volta, che mi risulti di un maagzine che vende pubblicità per i modelli. The ads are labeled sponsored inside the markdown, so this is not undisclosed advertising in the classic sense. What is hidden is the audience split. There is now a layer of TIME.com written entirely for machines,… 📢 @ilquinta