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Recent news reports Anthropic alleges that operators linked to Alibaba used nearly 25,000 accounts and 28.8 million interactions with Claude to accelerate competing models towards ‘Mythos-class’ capabilities. The allegation remains contested and has not been independently proven but it illustrates both the appeal and the limitations of large scale model distillation. (Reuters) Large scale illicit […]
June 26, 2026
Historically organisations had years to adapt governance and risk management to technological change, AI is compressing those cycles into months. For me the blind spot for C-Levels I speak to is understanding the most important impact of AI, is not intelligence, it is speed. The challenge for leadership teams is that governance, procurement, compliance and […]
June 21, 2026
Further to extensive and growing debate on the digital sovereignty theme, I get the sesne the powers that be are finally beginning to define technology sovereignty in terms that match the reality of the AI age. For several years, European technology sovereignty was often discussed as an aspiration Europe should control its data, reduce reliance […]
June 20, 2026
Are you getting tired of the language used to describe artificial intelligence (AI) that is subliminally softening the reality of what these systems are actually doing? I certainly am … We are told that models are not perfect, as though they are accurate mirrors of reality with a few defects. In truth, an AI model […]
June 15, 2026
Further to my blog at the weekend on the compound systemic risk from an AI runaway event, something further to consider following initial comments I have received, concerns the threshold for offensive use classes of AI falling under Article 36, Additional Protocol-1 and Weapons Review of Lethal Autonomous Weapons System . Noting also that whilst […]
June 13, 2026
The United States’ decision to restrict foreign access to Anthropic’s most advanced models, such as Anthropics Fable 5, marks an important recognition of AI as a strategic and potentially destabilising capability. Although framed as an export-control and national-security measure, it also signals that frontier AI can no longer be treated as ordinary commercial software. The […]
June 2, 2026
Cybersecurity was built around a fundamental assumption, humans remained at the centre of decision making. Humans interpreted alerts, approved actions and constrained the speed at which systems operated. That assumption is collapsing. We are entering an unmanned era where AI collides with multiple exponential forces simultaneously, hyperscale compute, autonomous systems, robotics, satellite networks, edge sensors, […]
May 20, 2026
I still live in hope, that 2026 will mark the point at which cyber security is no longer treated as a technical or compliance function, just a security issue but accepted in its true global economy role as a core pillar of trust, resilience and macro-economic stability a systemic risk. Helped in no small part […]
May 15, 2026
There was a time when Bitcoin was dismissed as the preserve of hoodie wearing anarchists and fringe actors and was misunderstood to be empowering the individual with financial anonymity. Today, it is monitored with such analytical precision that one could almost imagine His Majesties revenue & Customs (HMRC) preferring to audit the ledger itself rather […]
May 10, 2026
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has confidentially filed a draft prospectus to regulators, which could mean it’s considering an Initial Public Offering (IPO) as soon as July 2026. The race to build orbital data centres and space-based AI infrastructure has now truly begun. As SpaceX seeks permission to launch up to 1 million solar‑powered satellites engineered as […]
May 4, 2026
The conversation around AI agents is accelerating but so is a fundamental misconception. Following a recent IDC dinner, one theme stood out in an AI Agent discussion, a conflation of AI agents with IoT. They are not the same thing. IoT senses and acts, AI agents decide. That distinction matters. AI agents are not devices, […]
April 29, 2026
Following a series of stimulating discussions with IDC last week, I have been reflecting on the intersecting themes of sovereignty, cloud platforms and AI (Agentics, projection of 1.2B serving over 217B daily actions by 2029) issues now firmly at the top of Europe’s strategic agenda. The conversation, however, is often framed in terms of ownership, […]
April 22, 2026
Further to my earlier post following the arrival of Mythos class AI capable of surfacing vulnerabilities and weaponising them by chaining them at machine speed. I would like to explore further and more explicitly how this has reset the baseline for organisational accountability and risk, whether this is acknowledged yet by some is only a […]
April 15, 2026
For most of the 20th century, intelligence appeared to be rising. The so called Flynn effect saw IQ scores climb steadily across the Western world, driven not by genetics but by environment, education, nutrition and critically, the spread of literacy and abstract thinking through books. That trend has now reversed. A large Norwegian study of […]
April 13, 2026
The AI conversation has been dominated by model size, training breakthroughs and eye-watering infrastructure spend but I get a real sense that this is increasingly the wrong lens. For me the true battleground is not where AI is built, it is where it is used and that place is inference. Inference is where AI models […]
June 28, 2026
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