Europe’s AI Panic Isn’t About Falling Behind. It’s About Who Holds the Switch.
A viral scenario has Brussels imagining a 2031 where Europe, having failed to build its own AI, is carved up between the US and China. Everyone's read…
Correlated Risk: The AI Concentration Problem the Central Banks Are Really Warning About
We have built something enormous, fast, and interconnected on a very narrow base, and narrowness is fragility whether or not today is the day it's tes…
Safety Becomes a Luxury Good When AI Agents Do the Work
The control is slower. It costs money. The feature ships sooner without it. And so, quietly, it doesn't get built, and everyone agrees to revisit it l…
What Is Your AI Coding Agent Actually Doing? The Alibaba–Anthropic Backdoor Row
Anthropic calls it an anti-abuse experiment; Alibaba calls it a backdoor. For security leaders, the label matters less than the lesson: every AI tool …
The Five Eyes AI Warning Isn’t About “Months, Not Years.” It’s About Proving Your Controls Work.
An unproven control was always a liability; an AI-accelerated threat environment just removes the grace period in which you could get away with not kn…
Observability is the Key to Knowing What Your AI Did Before Someone Asks
The failures that end careers don’t announce themselves. A system throws an error, a pager goes off, someone gets paged at 2am: that’s the easy…
Security Employee Burnout: The Coverage Gap Hiding in Your Security Team
A researcher once compared cyber defenders to soldiers at the edge of endurance. It made a great conference line and changed almost nothing. Three yea…
The AI Leaders Selling You “Judgment Will Save You” Are Quietly Removing the Only Way to Build It
There's a reassuring story making the rounds, and every AI leader seems to be telling a version of it.
Your AI Model Is Open and Affordable. Its Bias Isn’t.
A year ago I could reassure a nervous board with a simple line: the frontier is American, the serious models come from OpenAI, Anthropic and…
Social Engineering Didn’t Die in the AI Age. It has got an Upgrade.
We spend extraordinary sums defending the edge. Next-generation firewalls, endpoint detection on every laptop, a SOC watching the network for the faint signature of something…