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Berk Bytes security snapshot:
▪️ MAPP → pre-patch SharePoint exploits
▪️ Remote dam gate = OT online exposure risk
▪️ Dealer portal client-side auth → admin over 1k+ dealers
▪️ 1,200 cybercrime arrests across 18 African countries
▪️ China’s nationwide HTTPS reset
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▪️ MAPP → pre-patch SharePoint exploits
▪️ Remote dam gate = OT online exposure risk
▪️ Dealer portal client-side auth → admin over 1k+ dealers
▪️ 1,200 cybercrime arrests across 18 African countries
▪️ China’s nationwide HTTPS reset
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Berk Bytes 8/28
Welcome to this week's Berk Bytes, where we explore the latest AI & cybersecurity developments that matter to business leaders, startups, and technologists. This week we dive into Microsoft's controve...
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September 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Berk Bytes security snapshot:
▪️ MAPP → pre-patch SharePoint exploits
▪️ Remote dam gate = OT online exposure risk
▪️ Dealer portal client-side auth → admin over 1k+ dealers
▪️ 1,200 cybercrime arrests across 18 African countries
▪️ China’s nationwide HTTPS reset
www.linkedin.com/pulse/berk-b...
▪️ MAPP → pre-patch SharePoint exploits
▪️ Remote dam gate = OT online exposure risk
▪️ Dealer portal client-side auth → admin over 1k+ dealers
▪️ 1,200 cybercrime arrests across 18 African countries
▪️ China’s nationwide HTTPS reset
www.linkedin.com/pulse/berk-b...
AI, calendars, laptops, smart homes—none are as secure as you think.
Berk Bytes:
▪️ 4,500+ ChatGPT chats on Google
▪️ Calendar invites hijack Gemini homes
▪️ Screwdriver beats Dell security
▪️ Agentic AI flaw leaks MS API keys
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Berk Bytes:
▪️ 4,500+ ChatGPT chats on Google
▪️ Calendar invites hijack Gemini homes
▪️ Screwdriver beats Dell security
▪️ Agentic AI flaw leaks MS API keys
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Apprentis Ventures: Berk Bytes 8/11
Welcome to this week's Berk Bytes, where we explore the latest AI & cybersecurity developments that matter to business leaders, startups, and technologists. This week we dive into the illusion of priv...
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August 11, 2025 at 9:20 PM
AI, calendars, laptops, smart homes—none are as secure as you think.
Berk Bytes:
▪️ 4,500+ ChatGPT chats on Google
▪️ Calendar invites hijack Gemini homes
▪️ Screwdriver beats Dell security
▪️ Agentic AI flaw leaks MS API keys
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Berk Bytes:
▪️ 4,500+ ChatGPT chats on Google
▪️ Calendar invites hijack Gemini homes
▪️ Screwdriver beats Dell security
▪️ Agentic AI flaw leaks MS API keys
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Legacy train systems exploited. Malware exfiltrating via DNS TXT records. A single email triggers a £2B fallout. AI-generated bug reports weaponized as DoS. Berk Bytes breaks it down. ⬇️
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Berk Bytes – July 22, 2025
Welcome to this week's Berk Bytes, where we explore the latest AI & cybersecurity developments that matter to business leaders, startups, and technologists. This week we dive into why train hacking to...
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July 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Legacy train systems exploited. Malware exfiltrating via DNS TXT records. A single email triggers a £2B fallout. AI-generated bug reports weaponized as DoS. Berk Bytes breaks it down. ⬇️
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⚡ AI cost-performance is shifting fast:
– Inference costs dropped 99.7% over 2 years
– Training costs now exceed $100M per frontier model
– Open-source models are rapidly closing the performance gap
Source: May 2025 BOND: Trends–AI
– Inference costs dropped 99.7% over 2 years
– Training costs now exceed $100M per frontier model
– Open-source models are rapidly closing the performance gap
Source: May 2025 BOND: Trends–AI
July 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
⚡ AI cost-performance is shifting fast:
– Inference costs dropped 99.7% over 2 years
– Training costs now exceed $100M per frontier model
– Open-source models are rapidly closing the performance gap
Source: May 2025 BOND: Trends–AI
– Inference costs dropped 99.7% over 2 years
– Training costs now exceed $100M per frontier model
– Open-source models are rapidly closing the performance gap
Source: May 2025 BOND: Trends–AI
🌐 Real-World AI
Waymo captured 27% of San Francisco’s rideshare market in 20 months.
Tesla’s self-driving miles increased 100x over 33 months.
AI is operating at scale across transportation, agriculture, defense, mining, and robotics.
Expansion is underway across physical industries.
Waymo captured 27% of San Francisco’s rideshare market in 20 months.
Tesla’s self-driving miles increased 100x over 33 months.
AI is operating at scale across transportation, agriculture, defense, mining, and robotics.
Expansion is underway across physical industries.
July 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
🌐 Real-World AI
Waymo captured 27% of San Francisco’s rideshare market in 20 months.
Tesla’s self-driving miles increased 100x over 33 months.
AI is operating at scale across transportation, agriculture, defense, mining, and robotics.
Expansion is underway across physical industries.
Waymo captured 27% of San Francisco’s rideshare market in 20 months.
Tesla’s self-driving miles increased 100x over 33 months.
AI is operating at scale across transportation, agriculture, defense, mining, and robotics.
Expansion is underway across physical industries.
📊 AI is turning into real revenue.
Enterprise adoption and monetization are expanding across the stack. The shift is active and accelerating.
Source: May 2025 BOND Trends – Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise adoption and monetization are expanding across the stack. The shift is active and accelerating.
Source: May 2025 BOND Trends – Artificial Intelligence
July 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
📊 AI is turning into real revenue.
Enterprise adoption and monetization are expanding across the stack. The shift is active and accelerating.
Source: May 2025 BOND Trends – Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise adoption and monetization are expanding across the stack. The shift is active and accelerating.
Source: May 2025 BOND Trends – Artificial Intelligence
This week's Berk Bytes by Vincent Berk, Partner at Apprentis Ventures:
🔹Agentic AI goes off-script
🔹Iran's cyber lockdown
🔹Deepfake Zoom attacks
🔹Weaponized browser notifications
🔹The real story behind the “16B credential breach”
🔗 ⬇️
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🔹Agentic AI goes off-script
🔹Iran's cyber lockdown
🔹Deepfake Zoom attacks
🔹Weaponized browser notifications
🔹The real story behind the “16B credential breach”
🔗 ⬇️
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Apprentis Ventures: Berk Bytes 6/30
Welcome to this week's Berk Bytes, where we explore the latest AI & cybersecurity developments that matter to business leaders, startups, and technologists. This week we dive into the dangerous imprec...
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June 30, 2025 at 11:44 PM
This week's Berk Bytes by Vincent Berk, Partner at Apprentis Ventures:
🔹Agentic AI goes off-script
🔹Iran's cyber lockdown
🔹Deepfake Zoom attacks
🔹Weaponized browser notifications
🔹The real story behind the “16B credential breach”
🔗 ⬇️
www.linkedin.com/pulse/appren...
🔹Agentic AI goes off-script
🔹Iran's cyber lockdown
🔹Deepfake Zoom attacks
🔹Weaponized browser notifications
🔹The real story behind the “16B credential breach”
🔗 ⬇️
www.linkedin.com/pulse/appren...
Privacy isn’t broken—it was never there.
From chatbots to IoT gadgets, anything online is fair game.
It’s not a bug or a slip-up—it’s the blueprint.
Assume everything you type, stream, or connect is exposed by design.
This week’s Berk Bytes ⬇️
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From chatbots to IoT gadgets, anything online is fair game.
It’s not a bug or a slip-up—it’s the blueprint.
Assume everything you type, stream, or connect is exposed by design.
This week’s Berk Bytes ⬇️
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Apprentis Ventures: Berk Bytes 6/20
Welcome back to Berk Bytes! Let's start with apologies for missing the last 2 newsletters - I've been unusually busy since joining Apprentis Ventures. For those who've noticed, we launched Apprentis w...
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June 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Privacy isn’t broken—it was never there.
From chatbots to IoT gadgets, anything online is fair game.
It’s not a bug or a slip-up—it’s the blueprint.
Assume everything you type, stream, or connect is exposed by design.
This week’s Berk Bytes ⬇️
www.linkedin.com/pulse/appren...
From chatbots to IoT gadgets, anything online is fair game.
It’s not a bug or a slip-up—it’s the blueprint.
Assume everything you type, stream, or connect is exposed by design.
This week’s Berk Bytes ⬇️
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Modern security is upside down: old systems confuse hackers, new ones spy on you.
▪️Updates as bait & switch
▪️Solar panels as national security risks
▪️A teen’s $M school data heist (and why ransom doesn’t work)
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▪️Updates as bait & switch
▪️Solar panels as national security risks
▪️A teen’s $M school data heist (and why ransom doesn’t work)
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Apprentis Ventures: Berk Bytes 5/28
Cybersecurity Insights - May 28, 2025 Welcome to this week's Berk Bytes where we explore the latest cybersecurity & AI developments that matter to business leaders, startups, and technologists. This w...
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June 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Modern security is upside down: old systems confuse hackers, new ones spy on you.
▪️Updates as bait & switch
▪️Solar panels as national security risks
▪️A teen’s $M school data heist (and why ransom doesn’t work)
www.linkedin.com/pulse/appren...
▪️Updates as bait & switch
▪️Solar panels as national security risks
▪️A teen’s $M school data heist (and why ransom doesn’t work)
www.linkedin.com/pulse/appren...
BOND AI Trends Report May 2025 Insights:
💰 🏗️ AI infrastructure boom—Big Tech invested $212B last year (+63% Y/Y), driving a 49% annual spike in US data center construction. NVIDIA’s decade-long 28x revenue surge tells the story.
💰 🏗️ AI infrastructure boom—Big Tech invested $212B last year (+63% Y/Y), driving a 49% annual spike in US data center construction. NVIDIA’s decade-long 28x revenue surge tells the story.
June 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
BOND AI Trends Report May 2025 Insights:
💰 🏗️ AI infrastructure boom—Big Tech invested $212B last year (+63% Y/Y), driving a 49% annual spike in US data center construction. NVIDIA’s decade-long 28x revenue surge tells the story.
💰 🏗️ AI infrastructure boom—Big Tech invested $212B last year (+63% Y/Y), driving a 49% annual spike in US data center construction. NVIDIA’s decade-long 28x revenue surge tells the story.
Berk Bytes: Vincent Berk unpacks key cyber trends—AI-generated vulnerability reports swamping open-source devs, leaked ops from hacked ransomware gangs, and cracks in the myth of foolproof end-to-end encryption.
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Apprentis Ventures: Berk Bytes
Cybersecurity Insights - May 12, 2025 Happy Monday! Welcome to this week's Berk Bytes, where we explore the latest cybersecurity developments. This week we look at how AI-generated vulnerability repor...
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June 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Berk Bytes: Vincent Berk unpacks key cyber trends—AI-generated vulnerability reports swamping open-source devs, leaked ops from hacked ransomware gangs, and cracks in the myth of foolproof end-to-end encryption.
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🚀 AI adoption is rewriting history
June 6, 2025 at 12:56 AM
🚀 AI adoption is rewriting history
Strategically applying artificial intelligence to legacy systems can reveal significant hidden value and improve operational efficiency.
May 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Strategically applying artificial intelligence to legacy systems can reveal significant hidden value and improve operational efficiency.
Evolution of Cybersecurity Threat Management: Rapidly evolving cyber threats necessitate advanced, AI-supported defense mechanisms. Which new methodologies are effectively addressing emerging vulnerabilities?
April 30, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Evolution of Cybersecurity Threat Management: Rapidly evolving cyber threats necessitate advanced, AI-supported defense mechanisms. Which new methodologies are effectively addressing emerging vulnerabilities?
Vertical-specific AI-enhanced B2B software presents compelling opportunities for targeted innovation in underserved sectors.
April 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Vertical-specific AI-enhanced B2B software presents compelling opportunities for targeted innovation in underserved sectors.
In this edition of Apprentis Insights, @holly-neiweem.bsky.social, discusses the venture trends reshaping early-stage funding. Tech giants investing $1T+ into AI infrastructure = new opportunities for application-layer startups building across legacy industries.
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In this edition of Apprentis Insights, Holly Neiweem, Founder & Managing Partner of Apprentis Ventures, breaks down the venture trends reshaping early-stage investing. As tech giants deploy nation...
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April 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
In this edition of Apprentis Insights, @holly-neiweem.bsky.social, discusses the venture trends reshaping early-stage funding. Tech giants investing $1T+ into AI infrastructure = new opportunities for application-layer startups building across legacy industries.
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Apprentis Ventures is proud to announce that out of nearly 200 applications, Founder and Managing Partner @holly-neiweem.bsky.social of Apprentis Ventures, has been selected along with 6 other funds for the 2025 Catalyze Fund Fellowship. 🚀
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Catalyze 2025 Fund Fellowship Cohort | Apprentis Ventures
Apprentis Ventures is proud to announce that out of nearly 200 applications, we have been selected for the 2025 Catalyze Fund Fellowship.
We will be joined by Adaptation Ventures, Dark Pool Capital,...
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April 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Apprentis Ventures is proud to announce that out of nearly 200 applications, Founder and Managing Partner @holly-neiweem.bsky.social of Apprentis Ventures, has been selected along with 6 other funds for the 2025 Catalyze Fund Fellowship. 🚀
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In this edition of Apprentis Insights, Holly Neiweem, Founder & Managing Partner of Apprentis Ventures, shares what VCs look for in an early-stage founding team. Complementary strengths. Focused vision. Execution through uncertainty. There’s no single blueprint.
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#apprentisventures #ai #apprentisinsights | Apprentis Ventures
In this edition of Apprentis Insights, Holly Neiweem, Founder & Managing Partner of Apprentis Ventures, shares what VCs look for in an early-stage founding team. Complementary strengths. Focused v...
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April 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
In this edition of Apprentis Insights, Holly Neiweem, Founder & Managing Partner of Apprentis Ventures, shares what VCs look for in an early-stage founding team. Complementary strengths. Focused vision. Execution through uncertainty. There’s no single blueprint.
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In this edition of Apprentis Insights, Holly Neiweem, Founder & Managing Partner of Apprentis Ventures, shares thoughtful guidance for founders on what truly matters when building a purpose-driven company and raising capital in today’s VC environment.
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#apprentisventures #ai #apprentisinsights | Apprentis Ventures
In this edition of Apprentis Insights, Holly Neiweem, Founder & Managing Partner of Apprentis Ventures, shares thoughtful guidance for founders on what truly matters when building a purpose-driven...
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April 7, 2025 at 11:19 AM
In this edition of Apprentis Insights, Holly Neiweem, Founder & Managing Partner of Apprentis Ventures, shares thoughtful guidance for founders on what truly matters when building a purpose-driven company and raising capital in today’s VC environment.
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Before “software engineer” was a title, six women programmed the first general-purpose computer—ENIAC—without code, manuals, or precedent. Their legacy shaped modern computing and reminds us that the story of technology begins with human ingenuity.
March 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Before “software engineer” was a title, six women programmed the first general-purpose computer—ENIAC—without code, manuals, or precedent. Their legacy shaped modern computing and reminds us that the story of technology begins with human ingenuity.
Women's History Month: Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer, imagined machines doing more than math—she foresaw music, language, and creativity. Her 1843 notes on the Analytical Engine still inspire how we think about technology and innovation today.
March 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Women's History Month: Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer, imagined machines doing more than math—she foresaw music, language, and creativity. Her 1843 notes on the Analytical Engine still inspire how we think about technology and innovation today.
Embedding ethical accountability within AI implementation is critical for sustainable adoption across legacy industries.
March 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Embedding ethical accountability within AI implementation is critical for sustainable adoption across legacy industries.
Viewing cybersecurity as a strategic investment promotes organizational resilience and accelerates innovation opportunities.
March 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Viewing cybersecurity as a strategic investment promotes organizational resilience and accelerates innovation opportunities.
Implementing AI in legacy sectors isn't a tech challenge—it's a human challenge. How do startups build trust alongside technology?
March 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Implementing AI in legacy sectors isn't a tech challenge—it's a human challenge. How do startups build trust alongside technology?