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Following on from my last missive (From Zero-Day to Zero-Hour, How Cyber Defence Lost Time) and responding to some of the comments that it has stimulated, particularly on how AI is rapidly extending our capacity to act. I agree, it accelerates decisions, automates complexity and compresses what once took teams of experts into the output […]
April 7, 2026
With the announcement of Anthropic’s Claude Capybara, codenamed Mythos, this signals a decisive shift in cyber risk. This is not simply a better tool; it is the first of what has been warned of for some time, a machine that compresses the distance between vulnerability discovery and exploitation to near zero. Where defenders once relied […]
April 3, 2026
As EY showcases its AI audit platform ‘Canvas’ in the Big 4 AI arms race, the UK’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has barely had time to publish its first guidance on generative and agentic AI. I see a familiar tension emerging, innovation is accelerating faster than the mechanisms designed to trust it. As I have […]
March 29, 2026
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 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 […]
February 28, 2026
An article that should not be ignored at any level of leadership – ‘Russia stepping up hybrid attacks, preparing for long standoff with West, Dutch intelligence warns‘. Whilst it talks to the current state of national Hybrid threats predominantly from Russia it has lessons for Organisations of any size operating in today’s digital threat landscape […]
February 27, 2026
As the market this week reacts to recent volatility in public cybersecurity stocks, many commentators are anchoring confidence in a familiar thesis: agentic AI expands the attack surface and therefore guarantees long-term growth for security vendors. It is appealing in its simplicity. It echoes every prior technology cycle, more software, more surface area, more risk, […]
February 23, 2026
Following my blog 2 weeks ago on ‘Cyber Tail risk‘, an interesting comment in response to the LinkedIn post for the blog spun off a side thread I felt worth tugging. To rebase the parallel theme I used in that earlier piece, before 2008, financial leaders were not short of warnings of what we now […]
February 7, 2026
The weekend has started with some novel phenomenon being reported in the news, a social media site designed exclusively for AI agents. Yes you read that correctly, AI agents have their own social media platform, wetware permitted at their peril. Apparently we can expect platforms like Moltbook to go viral as thousands, nay millions of […]
February 1, 2026
To ban or not to ban, that is the question. Australia has lead the way with its ban on social media for under 16 year olds and opened minds to the detrimental impact of our poorly regulated digital society. Where the digital corporatocracy governs for commercial gain, through engineered distraction without boundaries, I believe they […]
January 16, 2026
I am starting to believe that ‘Sovereignty’ is becoming one of the most misused words in modern technology discourse. As digital infrastructure becomes geopolitical, vendors increasingly promise Sovereignty as a Service. The phrase is reassuring and often wrong. Let me start by providing some clarity, we need a clean and simple taxonomy. In the absence […]
January 10, 2026
Following the two age related posts I have recently done, notably ‘The Most Expensive Bias in Business …‘ and ‘Practical Insights into Activating Cognitive Superpowers‘, a repeated question that has come up is in pursuit of examples that bring to life the generic references I have made. To which end and none better a subject […]
January 3, 2026
In yesterdays Financial Times interview, AI pioneer Yann LeCun made waves by declaring that current large language models (LLMs) are a ‘dead end’ for achieving true machine intelligence, what he terms Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) rather than mere generative pattern completion. While LLMs like ChatGPT and META’s Llama have transformed search, writing and creative tooling, […]
April 8, 2026
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