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Two Days to a Worm
AI just collapsed the time it takes to build a self-spreading exploit. Our patch cycles didn't move.
The 2040 Pause Nobody's Actually Taking
A response to ai-2040.com's "Plan A": wanting a slowdown is easy. Engineering one that survives China's incentives, an unverifiable capability metric, and a deadline that accelerates the race is the hard part.
An Autonomous SOC Can Make a Provider More Profitable. Whether It Catches More Is a Separate Question.
Every AI SOC pitch leads with a margin story. Ask for the detection story next — nobody is volunteering it.
AI Agents Don't Have a Password Problem. They Have an Identity Problem.
Non-human identities now outnumber people roughly 80 to 1. Agents authenticate, act, and move at machine speed through accounts nobody governs like a human's badge and login.
The Inbox Is Still the Front Door
A hacker doesn't need to break your firewall. They need to send one convincing email. Why AI has made Business Email Compromise cheaper and better at the same time — and what actually holds up against it.
"We're Ready" Is Just "We're Secure" With Better PR
Arctic Wolf is right that belief isn't readiness. The fix isn't a sharper principle or a new platform — it's a number you can put in front of your board and show climbing.
You Built on Cheap AI. The Cheap Part Is Ending.
The $20-a-seat AI era was a land grab, not a business model. The repricing has already started — and if your operations, headcount, and workflows now assume the AI is there at yesterday's price, you have a single point of failure priced by someone else.
What If We Never Reach AGI?
We've spent a decade arguing about what happens when machines get smarter than us. The version where they don't is worth a look too — and it should change how you plan, even if it doesn't change whether you keep building.
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