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‘You want to control your own AI’: Pegasus spyware founder tells governments to push for sovereign AI and national security over reliance on US AI

Former Pegasus spyware company head urges governments to reduce reliance on US AI firms
Governments should focus more on sovereign AI and national security that the infrastructure provided by external entities
Pegasus spyware was used to monitor politicians, journalists, business heads, and more

Don’t trust US AI companies with your data and work towards creating sovereign AI, the former chief executive and co-founder of Israeli spyware organization NSO Group, Shalev Hulio, has said.

Hulio was responsible for the creation of the Pegasus spyware used to target politicians, top business leaders, and journalists around the world - marking a change in career that accompanies Hulio’s founding of AI cyber defence firm, Dream.

The former commercial spyware company head wants governments to host and develop their own AI models rather than hand over data relating to national security to US AI firms.

Spyware head to sovereign AI evangelist

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A weak key, a long silence and the case for checking the source

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