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Fireworks AI's Cloud Turns Out to Have More Drawers to Check
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Fireworks AI says its October breach was broader than initially disclosed, with attackers accessing customer account and billing information, some datasets, incomplete model weights and secrets. Notion also disclosed that its AI services were affected. Notion said fewer than 1 percent of its workspaces were involved. It found that the data included Notion AI chat transcripts used for the Insights feature and said the vast majority of affected workspaces' transcripts were unattributable. The incident shows how much can sit behind a simple AI interface. A provider may handle customer information and technical material as well as the text a user sees. A customer that relies on that provider must then assess its own exposure when the provider reports a breach. Cloud software makes underlying infrastructure easy to overlook during ordinary use. After an incident, the same invisible machinery becomes a very visible list of things to account for.
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