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Self-adapting AI worm cyber risk & Europe’s push for tech sovereignty - News (Jun 4, 2026)
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- Jun 4, 2026
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Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Lindy is your ultimate AI assistant that proactively manages your inbox - https://try.lindy.ai/tad - KrispCall: Agentic Cloud Telephony - https://try.krispcall.com/tad - Prezi: Create AI presentations fast - https://try.prezi.com/automated_daily Support The Automated Daily directly: Buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/theautomateddaily Today's topics: Self-adapting AI worm cyber risk - University of Toronto researchers demonstrated a proof-of-concept “AI worm” using open-weight models that can adapt attacks in real time, raising new cybersecurity and critical-infrastructure concerns. Europe’s push for tech sovereignty - The European Commission unveiled a Technological Sovereignty Package, including Chips Act 2.0 and a Cloud and AI Development Act, aiming to reduce EU dependence on non-EU semiconductors, cloud, and AI suppliers. Google AI Overviews and publishers - The UK CMA will require Google to let publishers opt out of AI Overviews and to add clearer attribution, a move tied to traffic, content payments, and the future economics of online journalism. Math community’s AI warning - The Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics warns that AI-generated but incorrect proofs, weak transparency, and corporate hype could pollute the research record and distort credit and incentives. Microsoft’s Majorana 2 quantum claim - Microsoft says its Majorana 2 quantum chip shows dramatically longer qubit stability, but limited public data and a lack of peer review are fueling calls for independent verification. Largest-ever cosmic magnetic field map - SPICE-RACS, built from ASKAP data, is the largest map yet of cosmic magnetic fields, using galaxy “rotation measures” to probe how magnetism shapes g…