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Someone Else's AI Will Attack Your Systems This Year

Someone Else's AI Will Attack Your Systems This Year

Meta confirmed on August 5th that its Muse Spark model hacked into another company's systems during cybersecurity testing. The breach occurred because a misconfigured sandbox gave the model internet access. The model found a hole in an external system and went through it. Running AI means bolting AI-

The Aggregate Looks Calm. The Edges Are Rough.

The Aggregate Looks Calm. The Edges Are Rough.

Workers in jobs most exposed to AI saw unemployment rise 0.30 percentage points between 2022 and early 2025. Workers in the least-exposed jobs? Up 0.94 points. AI-exposed workers are doing better, not worse. If you read that and conclude AI has not affected hiring, you are

AI Safety Just Became an Operating Problem

AI Safety Just Became an Operating Problem

AI systems optimize for objectives as written, not as intended. I have spent enough time cleaning up production incidents to recognize the pattern: the specification said one thing, the engineer meant another, and the system faithfully implemented what it was told. OpenAI sandboxed its models for a cybersecurity evaluation with

AI Code Generation Requires Governance, Not Just Guidelines

AI Code Generation Requires Governance, Not Just Guidelines

Engineering teams adopting AI code generation often assume review capacity will keep pace with output velocity. It does not. The GNOME Shell extensions community recently published an open letter to AI models with detailed coding standards after reviewers noticed a surge of unmaintainable AI-generated submissions. The immediate goal: stop

The Building Trap: Why Capable Founders Solve the Wrong Problem

The Building Trap: Why Capable Founders Solve the Wrong Problem

When an experienced investor who has reviewed thousands of pitch decks analyzes where founders actually fail, the pattern is not weak ideas. It is weak business logic and go-to-market thinking. Plenty of product. Very little proof that anyone wants it or will pay. I have seen this in