Bianca Schilling
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Chief of Staff & Investor, Apprentis Ventures. Great Outdoors, Tech, and Women's Sports Fan.
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AI, calendars, laptops, smart homes—none are as secure as you think.
Berk Bytes:
▪️ 4,500+ ChatGPT chats on Google
▪️ Calendar invites hijack Gemini homes
▪️ Screwdriver beats Dell security
▪️ Agentic AI flaw leaks MS API keys
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Berk Bytes:
▪️ 4,500+ ChatGPT chats on Google
▪️ Calendar invites hijack Gemini homes
▪️ Screwdriver beats Dell security
▪️ Agentic AI flaw leaks MS API keys
www.linkedin.com/pulse/appren...
Apprentis Ventures: Berk Bytes 8/11
Welcome to this week's Berk Bytes, where we explore the latest AI & cybersecurity developments that matter to business leaders, startups, and technologists. This week we dive into the illusion of priv...
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August 11, 2025 at 9:20 PM
AI, calendars, laptops, smart homes—none are as secure as you think.
Berk Bytes:
▪️ 4,500+ ChatGPT chats on Google
▪️ Calendar invites hijack Gemini homes
▪️ Screwdriver beats Dell security
▪️ Agentic AI flaw leaks MS API keys
www.linkedin.com/pulse/appren...
Berk Bytes:
▪️ 4,500+ ChatGPT chats on Google
▪️ Calendar invites hijack Gemini homes
▪️ Screwdriver beats Dell security
▪️ Agentic AI flaw leaks MS API keys
www.linkedin.com/pulse/appren...
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Legacy train systems exploited. Malware exfiltrating via DNS TXT records. A single email triggers a £2B fallout. AI-generated bug reports weaponized as DoS. Berk Bytes breaks it down. ⬇️
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Berk Bytes – July 22, 2025
Welcome to this week's Berk Bytes, where we explore the latest AI & cybersecurity developments that matter to business leaders, startups, and technologists. This week we dive into why train hacking to...
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July 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Legacy train systems exploited. Malware exfiltrating via DNS TXT records. A single email triggers a £2B fallout. AI-generated bug reports weaponized as DoS. Berk Bytes breaks it down. ⬇️
www.linkedin.com/pulse/berk-b...
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⚡ AI cost-performance is shifting fast:
– Inference costs dropped 99.7% over 2 years
– Training costs now exceed $100M per frontier model
– Open-source models are rapidly closing the performance gap
Source: May 2025 BOND: Trends–AI
– Inference costs dropped 99.7% over 2 years
– Training costs now exceed $100M per frontier model
– Open-source models are rapidly closing the performance gap
Source: May 2025 BOND: Trends–AI
July 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
⚡ AI cost-performance is shifting fast:
– Inference costs dropped 99.7% over 2 years
– Training costs now exceed $100M per frontier model
– Open-source models are rapidly closing the performance gap
Source: May 2025 BOND: Trends–AI
– Inference costs dropped 99.7% over 2 years
– Training costs now exceed $100M per frontier model
– Open-source models are rapidly closing the performance gap
Source: May 2025 BOND: Trends–AI
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🌐 Real-World AI
Waymo captured 27% of San Francisco’s rideshare market in 20 months.
Tesla’s self-driving miles increased 100x over 33 months.
AI is operating at scale across transportation, agriculture, defense, mining, and robotics.
Expansion is underway across physical industries.
Waymo captured 27% of San Francisco’s rideshare market in 20 months.
Tesla’s self-driving miles increased 100x over 33 months.
AI is operating at scale across transportation, agriculture, defense, mining, and robotics.
Expansion is underway across physical industries.
July 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
🌐 Real-World AI
Waymo captured 27% of San Francisco’s rideshare market in 20 months.
Tesla’s self-driving miles increased 100x over 33 months.
AI is operating at scale across transportation, agriculture, defense, mining, and robotics.
Expansion is underway across physical industries.
Waymo captured 27% of San Francisco’s rideshare market in 20 months.
Tesla’s self-driving miles increased 100x over 33 months.
AI is operating at scale across transportation, agriculture, defense, mining, and robotics.
Expansion is underway across physical industries.
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The Human Genome Project cost taxpayers $3 Billion.
Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more.
If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.
Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more.
If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.
May 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The Human Genome Project cost taxpayers $3 Billion.
Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more.
If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.
Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more.
If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.
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📊 AI is turning into real revenue.
Enterprise adoption and monetization are expanding across the stack. The shift is active and accelerating.
Source: May 2025 BOND Trends – Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise adoption and monetization are expanding across the stack. The shift is active and accelerating.
Source: May 2025 BOND Trends – Artificial Intelligence
July 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
📊 AI is turning into real revenue.
Enterprise adoption and monetization are expanding across the stack. The shift is active and accelerating.
Source: May 2025 BOND Trends – Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise adoption and monetization are expanding across the stack. The shift is active and accelerating.
Source: May 2025 BOND Trends – Artificial Intelligence
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This week's Berk Bytes by Vincent Berk, Partner at Apprentis Ventures:
🔹Agentic AI goes off-script
🔹Iran's cyber lockdown
🔹Deepfake Zoom attacks
🔹Weaponized browser notifications
🔹The real story behind the “16B credential breach”
🔗 ⬇️
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🔹Agentic AI goes off-script
🔹Iran's cyber lockdown
🔹Deepfake Zoom attacks
🔹Weaponized browser notifications
🔹The real story behind the “16B credential breach”
🔗 ⬇️
www.linkedin.com/pulse/appren...
Apprentis Ventures: Berk Bytes 6/30
Welcome to this week's Berk Bytes, where we explore the latest AI & cybersecurity developments that matter to business leaders, startups, and technologists. This week we dive into the dangerous imprec...
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June 30, 2025 at 11:44 PM
This week's Berk Bytes by Vincent Berk, Partner at Apprentis Ventures:
🔹Agentic AI goes off-script
🔹Iran's cyber lockdown
🔹Deepfake Zoom attacks
🔹Weaponized browser notifications
🔹The real story behind the “16B credential breach”
🔗 ⬇️
www.linkedin.com/pulse/appren...
🔹Agentic AI goes off-script
🔹Iran's cyber lockdown
🔹Deepfake Zoom attacks
🔹Weaponized browser notifications
🔹The real story behind the “16B credential breach”
🔗 ⬇️
www.linkedin.com/pulse/appren...
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Privacy isn’t broken—it was never there.
From chatbots to IoT gadgets, anything online is fair game.
It’s not a bug or a slip-up—it’s the blueprint.
Assume everything you type, stream, or connect is exposed by design.
This week’s Berk Bytes ⬇️
www.linkedin.com/pulse/appren...
From chatbots to IoT gadgets, anything online is fair game.
It’s not a bug or a slip-up—it’s the blueprint.
Assume everything you type, stream, or connect is exposed by design.
This week’s Berk Bytes ⬇️
www.linkedin.com/pulse/appren...
Apprentis Ventures: Berk Bytes 6/20
Welcome back to Berk Bytes! Let's start with apologies for missing the last 2 newsletters - I've been unusually busy since joining Apprentis Ventures. For those who've noticed, we launched Apprentis w...
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June 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Privacy isn’t broken—it was never there.
From chatbots to IoT gadgets, anything online is fair game.
It’s not a bug or a slip-up—it’s the blueprint.
Assume everything you type, stream, or connect is exposed by design.
This week’s Berk Bytes ⬇️
www.linkedin.com/pulse/appren...
From chatbots to IoT gadgets, anything online is fair game.
It’s not a bug or a slip-up—it’s the blueprint.
Assume everything you type, stream, or connect is exposed by design.
This week’s Berk Bytes ⬇️
www.linkedin.com/pulse/appren...
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Modern security is upside down: old systems confuse hackers, new ones spy on you.
▪️Updates as bait & switch
▪️Solar panels as national security risks
▪️A teen’s $M school data heist (and why ransom doesn’t work)
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▪️Updates as bait & switch
▪️Solar panels as national security risks
▪️A teen’s $M school data heist (and why ransom doesn’t work)
www.linkedin.com/pulse/appren...
Apprentis Ventures: Berk Bytes 5/28
Cybersecurity Insights - May 28, 2025 Welcome to this week's Berk Bytes where we explore the latest cybersecurity & AI developments that matter to business leaders, startups, and technologists. This w...
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June 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Modern security is upside down: old systems confuse hackers, new ones spy on you.
▪️Updates as bait & switch
▪️Solar panels as national security risks
▪️A teen’s $M school data heist (and why ransom doesn’t work)
www.linkedin.com/pulse/appren...
▪️Updates as bait & switch
▪️Solar panels as national security risks
▪️A teen’s $M school data heist (and why ransom doesn’t work)
www.linkedin.com/pulse/appren...
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Data from the BOND Trends–Artificial Intelligence May 2025 report.
June 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Data from the BOND Trends–Artificial Intelligence May 2025 report.
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Berk Bytes: Vincent Berk unpacks key cyber trends—AI-generated vulnerability reports swamping open-source devs, leaked ops from hacked ransomware gangs, and cracks in the myth of foolproof end-to-end encryption.
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Apprentis Ventures: Berk Bytes
Cybersecurity Insights - May 12, 2025 Happy Monday! Welcome to this week's Berk Bytes, where we explore the latest cybersecurity developments. This week we look at how AI-generated vulnerability repor...
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June 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Berk Bytes: Vincent Berk unpacks key cyber trends—AI-generated vulnerability reports swamping open-source devs, leaked ops from hacked ransomware gangs, and cracks in the myth of foolproof end-to-end encryption.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/appren...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/appren...
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🚀 AI adoption is rewriting history
June 6, 2025 at 12:56 AM
🚀 AI adoption is rewriting history
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Strategically applying artificial intelligence to legacy systems can reveal significant hidden value and improve operational efficiency.
May 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Strategically applying artificial intelligence to legacy systems can reveal significant hidden value and improve operational efficiency.
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What connects traditional apprenticeships, a trillion dollars in AI investment, and the untapped potential of legacy industries? Apprentis Ventures. We bridge mentorship, hands-on learning, and cutting-edge AI to reimagine industries at the heart of our economy. 🧱
January 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
What connects traditional apprenticeships, a trillion dollars in AI investment, and the untapped potential of legacy industries? Apprentis Ventures. We bridge mentorship, hands-on learning, and cutting-edge AI to reimagine industries at the heart of our economy. 🧱
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Apprenticeships in trades have created $13T in wealth over 75 years; VC mentorship has added $8T. This wealth gap highlights how concentrated opportunity has become. At Apprentis Ventures, we believe in changing the narrative by democratizing innovation.
January 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Apprenticeships in trades have created $13T in wealth over 75 years; VC mentorship has added $8T. This wealth gap highlights how concentrated opportunity has become. At Apprentis Ventures, we believe in changing the narrative by democratizing innovation.
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Half of the U.S. GDP comes from manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, and construction. Yet these legacy industries are often last to innovate. At Apprentis Ventures, we honor their wisdom while introducing new tools for growth.💡
February 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Half of the U.S. GDP comes from manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, and construction. Yet these legacy industries are often last to innovate. At Apprentis Ventures, we honor their wisdom while introducing new tools for growth.💡
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Are you a startup founder navigating venture capital investment terms?
Apprentis Insights, with Holly Neiweem, Founder & Managing Partner of Apprentis Ventures, breaks down how VCs structure early-stage investments.
Apprentis Insights, with Holly Neiweem, Founder & Managing Partner of Apprentis Ventures, breaks down how VCs structure early-stage investments.
February 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Are you a startup founder navigating venture capital investment terms?
Apprentis Insights, with Holly Neiweem, Founder & Managing Partner of Apprentis Ventures, breaks down how VCs structure early-stage investments.
Apprentis Insights, with Holly Neiweem, Founder & Managing Partner of Apprentis Ventures, breaks down how VCs structure early-stage investments.
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Legacy industries are often misunderstood. At Apprentis Ventures, we see their wisdom as a foundation for innovation. The 'old' and 'new' aren’t opposing forces—they’re partners in progress. 🚛 🚆 🏭 🏗️ 🚢 ✈️ 🚜 🌾 📦 ⚙️
February 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Legacy industries are often misunderstood. At Apprentis Ventures, we see their wisdom as a foundation for innovation. The 'old' and 'new' aren’t opposing forces—they’re partners in progress. 🚛 🚆 🏭 🏗️ 🚢 ✈️ 🚜 🌾 📦 ⚙️
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The integration of artificial intelligence with legacy industries requires a nuanced understanding of historical operational frameworks. How can startups effectively facilitate this technological synthesis?
March 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The integration of artificial intelligence with legacy industries requires a nuanced understanding of historical operational frameworks. How can startups effectively facilitate this technological synthesis?
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In this episode of Apprentis Insights, Holly Neiweem of Apprentis Ventures, discusses common startup funding instruments at the early stages of VC investment. Holly shares how pre-seed and seed stage founders and investors should keep term sheets simple for a clear-cut and faster close.
March 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
In this episode of Apprentis Insights, Holly Neiweem of Apprentis Ventures, discusses common startup funding instruments at the early stages of VC investment. Holly shares how pre-seed and seed stage founders and investors should keep term sheets simple for a clear-cut and faster close.
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The role of artificial intelligence in cybersecurity is evolving toward predictive threat identification and proactive resilience. What emerging practices define this evolution?
March 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The role of artificial intelligence in cybersecurity is evolving toward predictive threat identification and proactive resilience. What emerging practices define this evolution?
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Yesterday’s B2B software focused on productivity; today’s on intelligence. Tomorrow’s? It’ll redefine collaboration entirely.
March 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Yesterday’s B2B software focused on productivity; today’s on intelligence. Tomorrow’s? It’ll redefine collaboration entirely.
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Successfully deploying AI solutions in established industries involves cultural adaptation as much as technological innovation. What strategies advance and cultivate effective integration?
March 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Successfully deploying AI solutions in established industries involves cultural adaptation as much as technological innovation. What strategies advance and cultivate effective integration?
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Implementing AI in legacy sectors isn't a tech challenge—it's a human challenge. How do startups build trust alongside technology?
March 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Implementing AI in legacy sectors isn't a tech challenge—it's a human challenge. How do startups build trust alongside technology?
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Viewing cybersecurity as a strategic investment promotes organizational resilience and accelerates innovation opportunities.
March 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Viewing cybersecurity as a strategic investment promotes organizational resilience and accelerates innovation opportunities.