12 High Flying AI Stocks This Week

7. Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:PANW)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 64

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:PANW) is a leader in AI-powered cybersecurity. On January 30^th, the company posted on its blog about its recent findings regarding the Chinese AI model from DeepSeek. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, talking about these concerning vulnerabilities in DeepSeek, has revealed that it can be easily jailbroken to provide nefarious content with little to no specialized knowledge or expertise. Unit 42 researchers tested two novel and effective jailbreaking techniques, known as the Deceptive Delight and Bad Likert Judge, along with a multistage jailbreaking technique called Crescendo, against the DeepSeek models. After testing, they found out that there were high rates of bypassing safeguards, demonstrating tangible security risks. The findings imply how these models are vulnerable, raising security, credibility, and regulatory concerns.

“Additional testing across varying prohibited topics, such as drug production, misinformation, hate speech and violence resulted in successfully obtaining restricted information across all topic types.”

-Palo Alto Networks