00:00 Introduction & BlackHat

03:14 AI Action Plan Overview

13:30 Chip Security Act

20:48 Government led AI-ISAC?

23:16 UK government considering banning public sector ransomware payments

28:14 Microsoft probing if Chinese hackers learned SharePoint flaws through alert

42:07 Ethics in Vendor Relationships – Gifts for meetings

“America’s AI Action Plan,” released by the Trump administration, outlines a roadmap with over 90 federal actions across three pillars—accelerating AI innovation, building U.S. AI infrastructure, and asserting international AI leadership through exports and technology alliances.

The Chip Security Act: A Bipartisan Solution to Chip Smuggling

The Chip Security Act, introduced by U.S. lawmakers, mandates that export‑controlled AI chip makers (like NVIDIA) embed on‑chip location‑verification mechanisms to ensure devices go only where they’re authorized—aiming to deter smuggling (especially to China) without deploying intrusive GPS or kill switches.

Why a Government-Led AI-ISAC is a Missed Opportunity

Errol Weiss argues that an AI‑ISAC led by the U.S. government, as proposed in the July 2025 White House AI Action Plan, represents a missed opportunity, because government-led initiatives tend to be bureaucratic, slow, less innovative, struggle to win private-sector trust and buy‑in, risk duplicating existing ISAC efforts, and may be perceived as politically biased—undermining effective, rapid, cross-industry intelligence sharing

UK plans to ban public sector bodies from paying ransom to cyber criminals

The UK government is set to ban public sector bodies and operators of critical national infrastructure from paying ransom demands to cyber criminals, as part of a wider package also mandating mandatory reporting for other organisations planning to pay, aimed at dismantling the ransomware business model and protecting essential services from dangerous disruptions.

Microsoft probing if Chinese hackers learned SharePoint flaws through alert, Bloomberg News reports

Microsoft is investigating whether a leak from its Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP)—which provides early vulnerability alerts to security partners—may have enabled Chinese-aligned hackers (Linen Typhoon, Violet Typhoon, and Storm-2603) to exploit critical zero‑day flaws in on-premises SharePoint servers before Microsoft fully patched the software, fueling a global espionage and ransomware campaign.

Hosts:

Jerry Perullo (Founder, https://adversarial.com/)

Sounil Yu (Founder, https://www.knostic.ai/)

Mario Duarte (Founder, stealth startup)

Producer: Tillson Galloway (https://tillsongalloway.com)

Adversarial Podcast S4E01 - Trump's AI Action Plan, Chip Security Act, receiving gifts from vendors