Mark Cuban: AI Will Make the First Trillionaire

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AI's the hot hand—calling storms and backing a trillion-dollar bet—but the house just leaked your data, and a deepfake walked past security.

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Mark Cuban: AI Could Mint Basement Trillionaire

Who needs venture capital when you've got a laptop and instant noodles?

Billionaire investor Mark Cuban told the High Performance podcast that AI's "preseason" has barely started, yet it's poised to spawn the planet's first trillionaire—possibly "one dude in the basement."

He argues that AI surpasses the internet and mobile in sheer opportunity, providing anyone with curiosity and access to ChatGPT a virtual MBA.

Cuban sees generative tools as startup sidekicks: brainstorm an idea, audit market history, and then iterate a business plan—all without tuition fees. Regulation, he insists, should police harmful AI outputs, not the open-source models every teenager can compile on a gaming rig.

Fears of a Terminator-style takeover? Overblown, he says. For now, AI is here to supercharge entrepreneurship, not overthrow humanity.

Why it matters: If Cuban's crystal ball is even half right, AI literacy could become the great wealth divider. So maybe keep that Raspberry Pi handy and the pizza delivery app closer.

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Google, NOAA Team on AI Hurricane Forecasts

When Big Tech meets Big Storms, expect lightning-fast models.

NOAA's National Hurricane Center has inked a CRADA with Google DeepMind to pipe near-real-time AI cyclone forecasts directly into forecasters' dashboards.

Google supplies the model; NOAA stress-tests it, aiming to sharpen track and intensity calls that guide evacuations.

The partnership's Weather Lab portal enables meteorologists to visualize outputs instantly, while NOAA's feedback loops inform model tweaks. It's the latest sign that AI is muscling into mission-critical public safety, not just photo filters.

While the tech partnership is promising, it comes amid proposed federal budget cuts that would shutter NOAA research labs behind many of the flash flood and storm modeling breakthroughs, raising concerns that public-sector forecasting innovation could stall just as it's becoming more essential.

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Security Alerts

AI Impostor Poses as Rubio, Targets Officials

An unknown actor cloned Secretary of State Marco Rubio's voice, slapped the fake handle "Marco.Rubio@state.gov" on a Signal account, and cold-called three foreign ministers, a US governor, and a member of Congress in mid-June.

According to a July 3 State Department cable, the deepfake voicemails and texts weren't about policy chitchat—they were designed to pry open sensitive accounts or harvest insider info.

Investigators haven't identified a culprit, but the FBI's May bulletin on AI-generated spoofing suddenly looks prophetic: all it takes is 15 or 20 seconds of audio and a bit of social engineering savvy.

Pro tip: That late-night call from the Secretary of State probably isn't about world peace. It's about your password.

Flutter Says Breach Hits Paddy Power, Betfair Users

Gambling giant Flutter Entertainment, owner of FanDuel and dozens of global brands, admits attackers swiped usernames, emails, partial addresses, and device data tied to its UK- and Ireland-facing Paddy Power and Betfair sportsbooks.

Payment info stayed safe, but phishing odds just shortened.

It's the latest hit in a rough run for Flutter: PokerStars lost data on about 110,000 players in a 2023 breach; Sky Betting & Gaming was ruled in January 2025 to have illegally profiled a problem gambler; and Australia's Sportsbet paid a roughly $60,000 fine last month for texting self-excluded bettors.

Flutter says the new breach is contained, but customers should enable MFA and trash any "verify your account" emails.

Industry Shakeups

IBM Power11 Servers Promise Zero-Downtime AI

IBM's new Power11 chips land July 25, delivering 55% faster cores, six-nines uptime, and built-in ransomware detection that triggers in under a minute.

The servers bundle with Red Hat OpenShift AI. They will connect to IBM's Spyre accelerator later this year, positioning Power11 as an inference-focused platform for enterprises that scale AI within real-world applications.

It's IBM's first major Power chip update since 2020, and the pitch is all about resiliency + simplicity: zero planned downtime thanks to autonomous patching and live workload migration, plus quantum-safe cryptography and immutable snapshots via IBM Cyber Vault.

Power11 won't out-muscle Nvidia for model training. Still, it's tuned for keeping mission-critical AI services humming with minimal disruption—ideal for finance, healthcare, and anywhere CIOs are juggling SLAs across hybrid clouds.

The lineup spans high-end to entry-level systems and is launching both on-prem and in IBM Cloud. Later this year, the servers will integrate with IBM Concert and watsonx, IBM's AI and data tooling suite, for automated patching and operational risk detection using generative AI.

Bottom line: It's not trying to win AI's arms race—it's trying to make sure your servers don't crash halfway through it.

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