The AI-driven SaaS boom, powered by code generation, agentic workflows and rapid orchestration layers, is producing 5-person teams with £10M+ in ARR. This breakneck scale and productivity is impressive, but it’s also hiding a dangerous truth: many of these startups…
Read moreWhile Part 1 explored how the amendment reinforced a sanctions-led approach and repositioned AI policy within the broader cybersecurity doctrine, this second instalment shifts focus to its most understated move — the cryptographic recalibration. Executive Order 14144’s treatment of Post-Quantum…
Read moreTrump’s latest Executive Order 14144 marks a strategic pivot in U.S. cybersecurity policy—narrowing sanctions, revoking digital ID initiatives, and mandating standards for AI and software security. In this first part of a two-part analysis, I unpack the deeper shifts beneath the headlines and highlight what practitioners, policymakers, and tech leaders need to watch.
Read moreIntroductionEurope’s compliance landscape is undergoing a seismic shift. With the proliferation of AI-driven products, tightening regulations such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, and PCI DSS, and the growing complexity of digital operations, businesses are under unprecedented pressure to stay compliant.…
Read moreWe built and launched a PCI-DSS aligned, co-branded credit card platform in under 100 days. Product velocity wasn’t our problem — compliance was. What slowed us wasn’t the tech stack. It was the context switch. Engineers losing hours stitching Jira…
Read moreIntroduction The AI industry’s safety narrative has been shattered. HiddenLayer’s recent discovery of Policy Puppetry — a universal prompt injection technique — compromises every major Large Language Model (LLM) today, including ChatGPT-4o, Gemini 2.5, Claude 3.7, and Llama 4. Unlike…
Read moreThe Myth of a Single Cyber Superpower: Why Global Infosec Can’t Rely on One Nation’s Database What the collapse of MITRE’s CVE funding reveals about fragility, sovereignty, and the silent geopolitics of vulnerability management I. The Day the Coordination Engine…
Read more“Innovation doesn’t always begin in a boardroom. Sometimes, it starts in someone’s resignation email.” In April 2025, Palantir dropped a lawsuit-shaped bombshell on the tech world. It accused Guardian AI—a Y-Combinator-backed startup founded by two former Palantir employees—of stealing trade…
Read moreInside the Palantir Mafia: Recent Moves, New Players, and Unwritten Rules (Part 2: 2023–2025 Update) I. Introduction: The Palantir Mafia Evolves The “Palantir Mafia” has quietly become one of the most influential networks in the tech world, rivalling even the…
Read moreA strange sense of déjà vu is sweeping through the cybersecurity community. A threat actor claims to have breached Oracle Cloud’s federated SSO infrastructure, making off with over 6 million records. Oracle, in response, says in no uncertain terms: nothing…
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