AI boom brings growth, risks, and security concerns for tech industry
Summary
The rapid rise of artificial intelligence is driving growth in the tech industry while raising concerns about security risks and investment returns, with exposed LLM deployments and mixed financial results from major companies.
Key Points
- Artificial intelligence growth is reshaping the tech industry with both opportunities and risks.
- Open-source large language models are vulnerable to exploitation and attacks due to exposed deployments lacking safety guardrails.
- China and the US host the majority of these vulnerable LLM deployments.
- Meta’s Q4 2025 revenue rose 24% driven by AI-powered ad targeting, while Microsoft's Azure showed disappointing growth despite investments.
- Tesla faces its first annual revenue decline as it shifts focus to AI, robotics, and humanoid robots with a planned $20 billion investment.
