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As an extended thought exercise from my earlier piece on the digital risk from smart city infrastructure in kinetic warfare scenarios, Iran’s expanding use of cyber operations against such civilian infrastructure represents not merely validation of that hypothesis or even just an escalation in conflict but I believe also a profound erosion of moral boundaries […]
March 25, 2026
For the past decade the value proposition of artificial intelligence has been largely defined by capability and scale. The biggest models, trained on the largest datasets and powered by the most compute, have set the pace of innovation. Performance benchmarks, parameter counts and inference speeds have been the metrics that dominated discussion. However, that equation […]
March 21, 2026
Modern cities are no longer just places people live, they are data-rich environments continuously broadcasting intelligence. In an era of escalating geopolitical tension, including the current Iran-linked cyber activity observed across Western networks, that reality is becoming strategically dangerous. Since early February, Iranian state-linked cyber actors, most notably the group known as Seedworm (also tracked […]
March 14, 2026
Following on the theme from my last missive, I believe the real prize in AI infrastructure is not datacentres, it is the orchestration layer. An orchestration layer built on a single foundational principle I have written about extensively – trust. Which is why Europe has a genuine opportunity to build the trust fabric for Artificial […]
March 12, 2026
Are we building sovereign AI infrastructure that is legally controlled but operationally fragile? The current conversation around sovereign AI is dominated by a sensible instinct, keep the models, data and compute that underpin critical national capability within national jurisdiction. Governments want AI infrastructure they control, regulate and can trust. Nice and tidy for the pen […]
March 8, 2026
As an avid fitness enthusiast, the modern ability to access personal metabolic and activity data has fascinated me ever since I first began exploring it more than 25 years ago. Anyone else remember the bulky Garmin Forerunner 101? How things have changed since then. With nearly half a lifetime of training data, now enriched by […]
March 3, 2026
Further to my earlier piece on Cyber Tail Risk, some interesting discussions ensued digging into the actual nature of Cyber Tail Risk. As I have inferred earlier, in finance we learned the hard way that risk does not follow a neat bell curve. Before 2008, models suggested losses would cluster comfortably around the average. They […]
March 29, 2026
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