ai security

  1. AI as Co-Founder: Designing Frontier Firms in the AI-Driven Startup Era

    When the first “employee” of a startup is an AI agent, everything that founders, investors, and HR teams thought they knew about building organizations is suddenly negotiable — from who gets hired and why, to how decisions are made, who owns accountability, and what leadership looks like in...
  2. Guardrails for Seemingly Conscious AI (SCAI): Mustafa Suleyman's Urgent Warning

    Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s head of consumer AI, has bluntly declared that the idea of machine consciousness is an “illusion” and warned that intentionally building systems to appear conscious could produce social, legal, and psychological harms far sooner than any technical breakthrough in...
  3. Microsoft licenses Claude Sonnet 4 in 365 Copilot, signaling a multi-model AI strategy

    Microsoft’s reported decision to license Anthropic’s Claude models into Microsoft 365 — bringing them into productivity features in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook — is the most explicit signal yet that Microsoft plans to move from a single‑vendor AI stack to a multi‑model Copilot strategy...
  4. Zenity Named Gartner Cool Vendor for Agentic AI Security and AgentFlayer Risks

    Zenity’s selection as a Gartner Cool Vendor in the newly published “Cool Vendors in Agentic AI Trust, Risk and Security Management (TRiSM)” report cements the company’s rapid rise as a specialist in securing the new generation of enterprise AI agents — but it also raises urgent operational and...
  5. Seemingly Conscious AI: Guardrails for Windows Copilot and AI Personas

    Mustafa Suleyman’s blunt diagnosis — that machine consciousness is an “illusion” and that building systems to mimic personhood is dangerous — has reframed a debate that until recently lived mostly in philosophy seminars and research labs. His argument is practical, not metaphysical: modern...
  6. Microsoft Taps Anthropic Claude, Builds Multi-Vendor Copilot for Office 365

    Microsoft’s move to fold Anthropic’s Claude models into Office 365 marks a clear turning point in the company’s AI strategy: after years of heavy reliance on OpenAI, Microsoft is now building a multi-vendor, task‑optimized Copilot that mixes Anthropic, OpenAI, and its own in‑house models to...
  7. AI Adoption Without Governance: Visibility Gaps Elevate Security and Compliance Risk

    As organizations race to exploit generative AI and broaden their third‑party ecosystems, a startling pattern is emerging: mass adoption without adequate visibility is creating a cascade of security, compliance, and financial risks that many firms are poorly equipped to handle. New survey data...
  8. Near Real-Time Enforcement for Copilot Studio in Power Platform

    Microsoft has added a near‑real‑time enforcement layer to Copilot Studio that lets security teams intercept, evaluate and — when necessary — block the actions autonomous agents plan to take as they run, bringing step‑level policy decisioning into the live execution loop for Power Platform...
  9. Inline Security for Copilot Studio Agents: Zenity's Real-Time Guardrails

    Zenity’s expanded partnership with Microsoft plugs real-time, inline security directly into Microsoft Copilot Studio agents — a move that promises to make agentic AI safer for widespread enterprise use while raising new operational and architectural questions for security teams. The...
  10. Copilot Studio Runtime: Near Real-Time AI Protection for Actions

    Microsoft is putting a second line of defense around AI agents: Copilot Studio now supports advanced near‑real‑time protection during agent runtime, a public‑preview capability that lets organizations route an agent’s planned actions through external monitoring systems — including Microsoft...
  11. Apertus and On-Device AI Spark an Open, Agent-Driven AI Ecosystem

    Switzerland’s bold Apertus release, new compact reasoning models from Nous Research, and a spate of open multilingual and on-device models this week underline a clear trend: AI is moving from closed, cloud‑only monoliths toward a more diverse ecosystem of open, efficient, and task‑specific...
  12. AI Personas at Work: What Your Model Choice Says About Risk and Privacy

    The AI you keep open in a browser tab is doing more than answering queries — it's broadcasting something about how you think, what you value, and how you want the world to work. A recent cultural riff that maps people to their preferred models — from OpenAI’s GPT‑5 users to xAI’s Grok fans and...
  13. OpenAI's Open-Weight GPT-OSS Reshapes Microsoft Partnership and Multi-Cloud

    OpenAI’s decision to publish high‑quality, open‑weight language models has suddenly reframed its relationship with Microsoft — shifting what until recently felt like a settled strategic partnership into a contested terrain of contracts, cloud economics, and platform control. The company’s...
  14. Platform-Driven Channel: PAYG, AI Security & MSP Growth

    This week’s channel headlines make one thing clear: vendors are sharpening routes to market for managed service providers, packaging flexibility and automation into partner programmes, subscription platforms and AI-first security products that are explicitly aimed at shrinking the gap between...
  15. Prisma SASE 4.0: AI-Driven Browser Security & SaaS Agent Governance

    Palo Alto Networks has pushed a clear marker in the SASE arms race with the launch of Prisma SASE 4.0, a major platform refresh that explicitly frames the next phase of enterprise security as AI versus AI — protecting organizations not only from AI-augmented attackers, but from the uncontrolled...
  16. Zero Trust for GenAI: Guarding Data From EchoLeak and Prompt Attacks

    In January, security researchers at Aim Labs disclosed a zero-click prompt‑injection flaw in Microsoft 365 Copilot that demonstrated how a GenAI assistant with broad document access could be tricked into exfiltrating sensitive corporate data without any user interaction—an attack class that...
  17. GPT-5 on Azure Foundry: A Startup Guide to Fast, Cost-Efficient AI Apps

    Microsoft’s message to founders is simple and forward‑looking: GPT‑5 is now part of Azure’s production stack, and Azure AI Foundry packages the model family, routing, safety controls and deployment plumbing startups need to move from experiment to revenue‑grade product quickly. The announcement...
  18. AI 2027: Practical steps to govern the rise of superintelligent AI

    At some point in the early 21st century, the public debate over artificial intelligence shifted from abstract speculation to urgent planning: could the next leap in AI turn into a civilization-scale crisis, and if so, what can people do now to reduce the odds? A high-profile scenario known as AI...
  19. Chrome Becomes an AI Platform: Claude, MAI Models, and Privacy Risks

    Chrome is quietly becoming an AI platform — and the consequences are already rippling through privacy, competition, and enterprise planning. Background / Overview The past week has delivered three tightly coupled developments that deserve close attention: Anthropic’s pilot of Claude for Chrome...
  20. Microsoft's In-House AI Push: MAI-Voice-1, MAI-1-Preview & Phi-4 on GPUs

    Microsoft has quietly but decisively moved from being a heavy consumer of third‑party AI models to a company shipping its own, first‑party foundation and voice models — and it has paired those models with an explicit expansion of internal, large‑scale training and inference infrastructure that...