BRSL Weekly Brief
Your weekly brief on current events from the Berkeley Risk and Security Lab.
BRSL Weekly Brief
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New White House Funding Blueprint: a Focus on AI
This episode examines a new Trump administration report outlining its vision for federally funded research and development (R&D), with particular attention to AI. BRSL Faculty Dir. Andrew Reddie argues that the report represents a significa...
Key Takeaways from Anthropic's Year-long Cyber Threat Map
This week on the BRSL Weekly Brief Professor Andrew Reddie breaks down the June 3 2026 report from Anthropic analyzing a year in cyber threats and attacks -- and what we can learn from them.
Mythos, AI, and Behind the Scenes of Cyber Sabotage and fast16
On today's episode, BRSL Senior Research Scholar Dr. Sarah Shoker talks with Gabriel Bernadett-Shapiro, Distinguished AI Research Scientist at SentinalOne about AI, Mythos, and understanding cyber sabotage.
AI News Roundup: Google/Pentagon deal, U.S. data centers, and Mythos
This week on the BRSL Weekly Brief, Senior Research Scholar Sarah Shoker discusses three recent AI headlines: the Google/Pentagon agreement for use of Gemini in military contexts, the future of data centers in the U.S., and Anthropic's decision...
News Roundup: Iran, European Rearmament, and Semiconductors
This week on the BRSL Weekly Brief, BRSL Professor Andrew Reddie dives into three separate--yet deeply interconnected--topics: the ongoing Iran war, European pushes for rearmament, and worldwide semiconductor chip shortages.