In this episode of IT SPARC Cast, John and Lou cover Adobe Acrobat’s AI-powered contract analysis, Sam Altman’s admission that OpenAI has been on the wrong side of history, and Rackspace’s move away from VMware amid skyrocketing costs. They also discuss Stanford’s new $50 AI model and its potential to disrupt AI training. In the CVE of the Week, they expose DeepSeek’s massive security breach, where over a million sensitive records were leaked.

Is OpenAI about to lose the AI war to open-source models? Is DeepSeek safe for enterprise use? Tune in to get expert analysis on these breaking stories.

Show Notes:

News Bytes

00:53 - Adobe Acrobat’s AI-Powered Contract Analysis

•Adobe updates Acrobat with AI-assisted contract comparison, helping users spot discrepancies and hidden legal traps.

•https://www.engadget.com/ai/adobes-acrobat-ai-assistant-can-now-assess-contracts-for-you-140058723.html

07:28 - Sam Altman Admits OpenAI Was Wrong on Open Source

•Sam Altman acknowledges OpenAI has been on the “wrong side of history” regarding open-source AI—but will they change course?

•https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/31/sam-altman-believes-openai-has-been-on-the-wrong-side-of-history-concerning-open-source/

10:55 - Rackspace Moving Away from VMware

•Another major cloud provider, Rackspace, is ditching VMware for Platform9’s OpenStack-based cloud solution.

•Broadcom’s aggressive price hikes are pushing even big players away—what does this mean for VMware’s future?

•https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/05/rackspace_vmware_planet9_migration/?td=rt-3a

17:29 - Stanford’s New $50 AI Model

•Researchers at Stanford & the University of Washington trained a powerful AI model for just $50.

•The catch? It’s built on a Chinese open-source model from Alibaba’s Qwen lab.

•Could this be a game-changer for AI accessibility, or does it raise new security and data sovereignty concerns?

•https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/05/researchers-created-an-open-rival-to-openais-o1-reasoning-model-for-under-50/  

CVE of the Week

23:06 - DeepSeek Has Deep Leaks

•Security researchers at Wiz uncovered a massive data breach in DeepSeek’s backend, exposing:

•Over a million log entries.

•Software keys & backend infrastructure details.

•https://www.csoonline.com/article/3813224/deepseek-leaks-one-million-sensitive-records-in-a-major-data-breach.html 

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