About this episode

The episode discusses allegations against IBM regarding undisclosed data breaches and features insights on OpenAI's ongoing projects.

IBM and two of its subsidiary companies were allegedly breached during the mid-2010s, which a lawsuit filed by a former cybersecurity executive accuses IBM of not disclosing and actively covering up. Also, "Chat is dead" — at least, according to a senior OpenAI employee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

People in this episode

Guest: former cybersecurity executive

Topics covered

• data breaches
• whistleblower
• cybersecurity
• OpenAI
• super app

Keywords

• IBM
• data breaches
• whistleblower
• OpenAI
• super app
• cybersecurity
• lawsuit

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Organizations: IBM, OpenAI

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