Attackers are targeting open-source AI just as Big Tech is embracing it

The future of AI will be driven in significant part by startups and small players using open-source software to make their own, cheaper, more efficient versions of Claude or ChatGPT, tech leaders finally admitted this week. For companies like AWS, the challenge now is protecting those public tools from increasingly sophisticated attacks from China, Russia, North Korea, or other players.“Open-weight models—AI models that anyone can download, inspect, modify, and run on their own infra